"Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face..." - Quote by Confucius
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
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“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
“If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”