I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own, and finally, also without any counsel, because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.

Our lives and blood for our King Maria Theresa!

I know of no greater plague than this race, which on account of its deceit, usury and avarice is driving my subjects into beggary. Therefore as far as possible, the Jews are to be kept away and avoided.

The school is and will always remain a matter of state.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

No one desires evil.

-- Socrates

Care for one another impartially; benefit one another in mutual exchange.

-- Mozi

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

-- Confucius

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

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

Compassion is the foundation of morality.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer