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- The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- All is flux, nothing stays still.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Nature is wont to hide herself.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- Much learning does not teach understanding.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
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