Confucius
"When respect is shown according to what is proper, one keeps far from shame and disgrace."
Confucius
"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if, in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere: although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."
Confucius
"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
Confucius
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
Confucius
"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
C.S. Lewis
"I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey."
George MacDonald
"A man is a slave to anything he cannot part with that is less than himself."
e.e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
"i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new
"
Peter Kreeft
"We are just or unjust to ourselves before we are just or unjust to others. Justice is rightness, righteousness. Justice is beauty of soul, soul-art, soul-music."
Peter Kreeft
"Plato gives us virtue's grammar; Jesus gives us virtue's poetry."
