Virtue is a matter of deeds, not words.

It is kingly, Socrates, to do good and be ill-spoken of.

A horse I can see, but horsehood I cannot see.

The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.

-- Chrysippus of Soli

Virtue is a kind of mean.

-- Aristotle

One swallow does not make a spring.

-- Aristotle

Stand a little out of my sunlight.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

Ethics as the study of man must be the study of the fundamental structure of human existence.

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

The good, in a word, is the realization of personality.

-- Kitarō Nishida