„Fie on possession,But if a man be vertuous withal.“

— Geoffrey Chaucer
„Loke who that is most vertuous alway,Prive and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he can,And take him for the gretest gentilman.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
„A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.“
— Frantz Fanon