„The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.“

— Confucius

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„The supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God“
— Isaac Newton
„Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.“
— Gordon Ramsay
„The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.“
— Fernando Pessoa