Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.

When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.

The exemplary person demands it of himself; the petty person demands it of others.

I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Every other is wholly other.

-- Jacques Derrida

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

-- Simone Weil

The purpose of human existence is to attain supreme happiness.

-- Farabi

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.

-- Albert Camus

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza