How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.
If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.
From the Emperor down to the masses of the people, All must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything else.
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