“How to handle enemies and those who wrong or offend me.”

“Never offend an enemy in a small way.”

“People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.”

“Just as a maistre Fifi mocks those who hold their noses [in his presence]. because he has handled filth for so long that he can no longer smell his own foulness; so likewise do idolaters make light of those who are offended by a stench they cannot themselves recognize. Hardened by habit, they sit in their own excrement, and yet believe they are surrounded by roses.”

“I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.”

“What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?”

“That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.”

“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”

“Doors are for those who lack enemies.”

“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”