"Return good for good; return evil with..." - Quote by Confucius

“It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.”

“Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?”

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.”

“History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.”

“You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.”

“In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.”

“Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.”

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”