A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
ConfuciusThe Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.
ConfuciusThe administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.
Confucius