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"He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner."
By Hesiod
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"He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire."
By Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened."
By Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know."
By Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
By Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
By Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
By Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."
By Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
By Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."
By Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes
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"How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!"
By Sophocles, Antigone
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"Haste in every business brings failures."
By Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."
By Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
By Hippocrates, Precepts
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"High thoughts must have high language."
By Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B.C.
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"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
By Plato, The Republic
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"Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?"
By Phocion, from Plutarch, Apothegms
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"Hope is a waking dream."
By Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
By Aristotle, Politics
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"He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar."
By Chuang-tzu, The Great Supreme
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