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When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it.

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other.

Confucius himself has repeatedly taught that external appurtenances are as little a part of propriety as sounds are of music.

Kumazawa: - When others blame thee, blame them not; when others are angry at thee, return not anger. Joy cometh only as Passion and Desire part.

The feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress.

Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives.

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

Chivalry is itself the poetry of life. - SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History.

We needed no Shakespeare to feel
though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.

Tranquillity is courage in repose.

Indeed, valour and honour alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.

dishonor is like a scar on a tree, which time, instead of effacing, only helps to enlarge." Mencius

Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.