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.

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