The Man Of Upright Life

If You Yourself Desire Establishment, Then Help Others To Get Establishment; If You Yourself Want Success, Then Help Others To Attain Success.

The Gods Should Certainly Be Revered, But Kept At A Distance... . The Way Is Not Beyond Man; He Who Creates A Way Outside Of Man Cannot Make It A True Way. A Good Man Is Content With Changing Man, And That Is Enough For Him.

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.

What The Superior Man Seeks Is In Himself; What The Small Man Seeks Is In Others.

The Master Said Of Gong Yechang, “he Is Marriageable. Although He Was Once Imprisoned And Branded As A Criminal, He Was In Fact Innocent Of Any Crime.” The Master Gave Him His Daughter In Marriage. (analects 5.1)