“Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)”
“This leather chair belongs to me. I would let you sit in it, but you can’t sit in an idea.”
“Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made”
“If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!”
“These sons belong me, and this wealth belongs me," with such thoughts the fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?”
“A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.”