"A gentleman does not promote a man..." - Quote by Confucius

“The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.”

“The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.”

“The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.”

“Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.”

“Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”

“Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.”

“The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.”

“The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.”

“The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.”