#equality

Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Friendship is an equality of loving, where each partner receives back what they bestow.

No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense, no group is of 'pure race.'

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The soul has neither sex, nor caste, nor nation. It is infinite, eternal, and free.

The sun shines equally upon all; let your compassion do the same.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

The law must be applied equally to the prince and the peasant.

Do not mock the poor or the weak, for the rudder of their ship is held directly in the Master's hands.

No one is high and no one is low by birth alone; he who realizes the Supreme Truth is truly noble.

From the Emperor down to the common people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of all virtue.

When you look upon all beings with the eyes of the Dao, there is neither high nor low, neither precious nor vile.

Be like the sun that warms the palace and the hovel with the exact same radiant light.

The rose does not withhold its perfume from the beggar nor reserve it only for the king.

The moon does not withhold its reflection from the muddy puddle.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

The moon does not withhold its cool radiance from the cottage of the outcast.

Neither the glory of the emperor nor the sorrow of the beggar will endure.

The morning sun rises to warm the earth for everyone, not just for the grand chief.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.