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| The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. | | Confucius | | |
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| The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. | | Confucius | | |
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| The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. | | Confucius | | |
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| The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. | | Confucius | | |
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| The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The unexamined life is not worth living for man. | | Socrates | | |
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The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. | | Lao Tzu | | |
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| The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. | | Ernest Hemingway | | |
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| The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness. | | Confucius | | |
