G.K. Chesterton
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
Mencius
"The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom."
Thomas Merton
"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
Peter Kreeft
"Why is it that nothing can make us as sorrowful as love? It is the same reason that nothing can make us as joyful as love. In love we become the other, we slough off our skin like a snake. Underneath that hard, protective coat of otherness and ego, there is new flesh, incomparably more sensitive than the outer skin. The heart is like a newborn baby. It is our spiritual erogenous zone, capable of exquisite joys and exquisite sufferings by its extreme sensitivity. We appropriately cover and protect these privy parts of the soul, just as we do to the corresponding parts of the body. But when we love, we expose them, to pleasures or pains beyond imagining."
Confucius
"To see what is right and not to do it is lack of courage."
Confucius
"Let leaders advance the good and teach the incompetent; then they will eagerly seek to be virtuous."
Confucius
"Observe much and put aside the things which seem perilous, while you are cautious at the same time in carrying the others into practice."
Confucius
"Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous."
Confucius
"[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions."
Confucius
"At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning.
At thirty, I stood firm.
At forty, I had no doubts.
At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth.
At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right."
