The vital impulse of which we speak consists, in short, in a demand for creation.

The universe is a machine for the making of gods.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Just as medicine is useless if it does not drive out bodily disease, so philosophy is useless if it does not drive out suffering of the soul.

-- Epicurus

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

No one desires evil.

-- Socrates

Virtue lies in the middle.

-- Aristotle

Care for one another impartially; benefit one another in mutual exchange.

-- Mozi

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

-- Confucius