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- The gods help them that help themselves.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), Hercules and the Wagoner
- The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Eagle and the Arrow
- Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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