Even If People Do Not

The Master Said, At Fifteen I Set My Heart Upon Learning. At Thirty, I Had Planted My Feet Firm Upon The Ground. At Forty, I No Longer Suffered From Perplexities. At Fifty, I Knew What Were The Biddings Of Heaven. At Sixty, I Heard Them With Docile Ear. At Seventy, I Could Follow The Dictates Of My Own Heart; For What I Desired No Longer Overstepped The Boundaries Of Righ.

If Language Is Not Correct, Then What Is Said Is Not What Is Meant. If What Is Said Is Not What Is Meant, Then What Ought To Be Done, Remains Undone.

Let Our Reason, And Not Our Senses, Be The Rule Of Our Conduct; For Reason Will Teach Us To Think Wisely, To Speak Prudently, And To Behave Worthily.

Think No Vice So Small That You May Commit It, And No Virtue So Small That You May Over Look It.

A Youth, When At Home, Should Be Filial, And, Abroad, Respectful To His Elders.