If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
ConfuciusTo govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?
ConfuciusThe Master said, โWhat a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and waterโother people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Huiโs joy. What a worthy man was Hui!โ (Analects 6.11)
ConfuciusA gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.
ConfuciusOn 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.
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