Care Not For Want Of

Guide Them By Edicts, Keep Them In Line With Punishments, And The Common People Will Stay Out Of Trouble But Will Have No Sense Of Shame. Guide Them By Virtue, Keep Them In Line With The Rites, And They Will, Besides Having A Sense Of Shame, Reform Themselves.

If I Do Not Participate In The Sacrifice, It Is As If I Did Not Sacrifice At All.

But If You Do Not Have The Tao Yourself, What Business Have You Spending Your Time In Vain Efforts To Bring Corrupt Politicians Into The Right Path?

There Are Some With Whom We May Study In Common, But We Shall Find Them Unable To Go Along With Us To Principles. Perhaps We May Go On With Them To Principles, But We Shall Find Them Unable To Get Established In Those Along With Us. Or If We May Get So Established Along With Them, We Shall Find Them Unable To Weigh Occurring Events Along With Us.

To Be Fond Of Learning Is To Draw Close To Wisdom. To Practice With Vigor Is To Draw Close To Benevolence. To Know The Sense Of Shame Is To Draw Close To Courage. He Who Knows These Three Things Knows How To Cultivate His Own Character. Knowing How To Cultivate His Own Character, He Knows How To Govern Other Men. Knowing How To Govern Other Men, He Knows How To Govern The World, Its States, And Its Families.