Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. As without bones the head cannot rest on the top of the spine, nor hands move nor feet stand, so without rectitude neither talent nor learning can make of a human frame a samurai. With it the lack of accomplishments is as nothing. Anonymous Bushi
A Power of Resolution
Rectitude is the power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering – to die when it is right to die, to strike when to strike is right. Anonymous Bushi
Right Action
To know and to act are one and the same. Wan Yang Ming
Chastity – Nietzsche
Life is a well of joy, but where the (fornicating) rabble also drinks, there all wells are poisoned.
I appreciate all that is clean (chaste); but I do not like to see the grinning snouts of the unclean (the fornicators).
They cast their eyes into the well (of Yesod: sexuality); now their disgusting smile reflects back up to me from the well (meaning, through their lust they want to justify their lewdness, saying that sex is only for fornication and procreation as animals).
They have poisoned the holy water with their lustfulness, and when they called their filthy dreams “pleasure,” they poisoned the language too. –Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: On the Rabble