"On the wall of the Charuk palace, near Thebes, where I spent my childhood, there was a mural painting of a naval battle between the Cretans and the Egyptians; the enemies' ships were going down, the men drowning and the Egyptians were stretching out to them poles, sticks, oars, saving their enemies. I remember someone laughed looking at the painting: 'One wouldn't find such fools anywhere except in Egypt!' I did not know what to answer and perhaps I do not know now, but I am glad to be living in the land of such fools!"
"The greatest of the kings of Egypt, Amenemhet, had it written on his tomb:
In my reign men lived in peace and mercy
Arrows and swords lay idle in my reign."
"The god rejoices when he goes into battle and sees blood" is said in the inscription of King Tutmose the Third, the Conqueror, to the god Amon. Amon is the god of war, Aton the god of peace. One must choose between them. I have chosen."
"There will be war so long as there are many peoples and many gods; but when there is one God and one mankind, there will be peace."
"We Egyptians despise the Jews, but maybe they know more about the Son than we do: we say about Him 'He was' and they say He is to come.'"
The king said to me alone and told me not to repeat it to anyone:
"I am the joy of the Sun, Akhnaton? No, not joy as yet, but sorrow; not the light, but the shadow of the sun that is to rise—the Son!"
Dio wrote down many other words of the king in her scroll and she finished with the hymn to Aton:
The Song of King Akhnaton Uaenra Neferheperura to Aton, the living and only God.