All human beings by nature desire to know.

Virtue is a kind of mean.

One swallow does not make a spring.

Virtue lies in the middle.

The beginning is half of the whole.

All human beings by nature desire to know.

-- Aristotle

Friends are companions on a journey who ought to help each other persevere on the road to a happier life.

-- Pythagoras

Unless philosophers rule as kings, or kings genuinely philosophize, there will be no end to troubles for states.

-- Plato

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

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

The feeling of compassion is the sprout of benevolence; shame, of righteousness; deference, of propriety; right and wrong, of wisdom.

-- Mencius

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

-- John Locke