Learning Without Thought Is Labour

One Joy Dispels A Hundred Cares.

Some Are Born With Knowledge, Some Derive It From Study, And Some Acquire It Only After A Painful Realization Of Their Ignorance. But The Knowledge Being Possessed, It Comes To The Same Thing. Some Study With A Natural Ease, Some From A Desire For Advantages, And Some By Strenuous Effort. But The Achievement Being Made, It Comes To The Same Thing.

How Great Is The Path Proper To The Sage! Like Overflowing Water, It Sends Forth And Nourishes All Things, And Rises Up To The Height Of Heaven. All-complete Is Its Greatness! It Embraces The Three Hundred Rules Of Ceremony, And The Three Thousand Rules Of Demeanor. It Waits For The Proper Man, And Then It Is Trodden. Hence It Is Said, 'only By Perfect Virtue Can The Perfect Path, In All Its Courses, Be Made A Fact.'

The Master Said, I Set My Heart On The Way, Base Myself On Virtue, Lean Upon Benevolence For Support And Take My Recreation In The Arts.

To Be Fond Of Learning Is Near To Wisdom.