The Love To Wisdom Is Getting Closer

On Matters Beyond His Ken A Gentleman Speaks With Caution. If Names Are Not Right, Words Are Misused. When Words Are Misused, Affairs Go Wrong. When Affairs Go Wrong, Courtesy And Music Droop, Law And Justice Fail. And When Law And Justice Fail Them, A People Can Move Neither Hand Nor Foot. So A Gentleman Must Be Ready To Put Names In Speech, To Put Words Into Deeds. A Gentleman Is Nowise Careless Of Words.

The Superior Man Is Satisfied And Composed; The Mean Man Is Always Full Of Distress.

The Administration Of Government Lies In Getting Proper Men. Such Men Are To Be Got By Means Of The Ruler's Own Character. That Character Is To Be Cultivated By His Treading In The Ways Of Duty. And The Treading Those Ways Of Duty Is To Be Cultivated By The Cherishing Of Benevolence.

The Parents Age Must Be Remembered, Both For Joy And Anxiety.

A Disciple Having Asked For A Definition Of Charity, The Master Said Love One Another.