Mencius, Chinese Wisdom:
Act with kindness, but do not exact gratitude.
Give by day, and your reward shall spring by
night.
By virtue
alone in itself, one never reaches rule over men's hearts.
He must make his virtue sustain others.
Good-will subdues its opposite, as water fire.
Friendship
with a man is friendship with his
virtue.
A people's limits do not consist in dikes and
borders.
The security of a State is not in the
strength of mountains and streams.
They who expect to live without enemies, yet
have no kindness for others,
are like one who
should try to maintain a heated body without dipping it in water.
