When I remembered all this, I wondered greatly at the good wise men who once lived throughout England, and how lovingly they had translated learning into their own language.

Therefore it seems better to me, if it seems so to you, that we translate the books most needful for all men to know into the language we can all understand.

Wisdom is the father of all virtues.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

No one desires evil.

-- Socrates

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

-- Mozi

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

-- Confucius

Ethics is the ground of being of human community — the way of aidagara (betweenness) between person and person.

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

Compassion is the foundation of morality.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer