Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.