[*"There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness."*](http://www.quotes.net/quote/1289) [***Confucius »***](http://www.quotes.net/authors/Confucius) Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)