If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.
If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.