"Every generous action loves the public view;..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Every animal loves itself.”

“No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]”

“Time is the herald of truth.”

“Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .”

“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”

“When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.”

“Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.”

“These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”

“Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness”