No self-cultivation, no virtue. If you don't stand up for virtue, you can be a widow at home, but the situation is worse than the world. -Wu Zetian

Gentleman's journey is quiet with self-cultivation, frugality with self-cultivation, indifference with ambition, and quietness with inaction. -Zhuge Liang

The most blind obedience is the only virtue left by slaves. -Rousseau