Without truthfulness there can be no goodness; without goodness it is impossible to communicate the truth.
Goodness and truth require each other.
Those who know the truth are equal to those who love it; but those who love it are not equal to those who act upon it with love.
— Confucius
Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and do not do the things which I say?
Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
But he who hears, and does not do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.
— Luke 6:46–49
Answer hatred with kindness. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle big things while they are still small. The most difficult enterprises begin when they are simple. The greatest enterprises begin when they are still small.
— Laozi
There are two paths that lead to virtue: be just and do no harm to living beings.
— Manusmriti
Truth never takes up arms against evil; it defeats evil with its clearness, obviousness and inner power.
— Thoreau
All anger is the result of powerlessness.
— Rousseau
There is nothing worse than feigned kindness. Feigned kindness is more repulsive than overt malice.
