When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.