Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

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

I fear the man of a single book.

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.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

No one desires evil.

-- Socrates

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

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

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

-- Confucius

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

-- John Locke

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

-- John Stuart Mill