"There are cases in which the blade..." - Quote by Confucius

“He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.”

“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”

“First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.”

“We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!”

“The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.”

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”

“Your level of achievement will rise to meet the level of your purpose.”

“Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.”

“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”