„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

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„Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.“
— Confucius
„Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.“
— Swami Vivekananda