Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.

Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Man cannot naturally will the good except under the aspect of the good.

As in all things, we suffer from excess in reading too. Many books are a burden, not an ornament.

-- Seneca

In the pursuit of learning, one gains daily. In the pursuit of the Tao, one loses daily -- losing and losing until one arrives at wu wei. Through non-action, nothing is left undone.

-- Laozi

Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.

-- Xunzi

Learning must never cease.

-- Xunzi

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

-- Confucius

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

-- Confucius