The Silent Treasuring Up Of Knowledge; Learning

From The Loving Example Of One Family A Whole State May Become Loving, And From Its Courtesies, Courteous; While From The Ambition And Perverseness Of The One Man The Whole State May Be Thrown Into Rebellious Disorder. Such Is The Nature Of Influence.

I Saw Some Piglets Suckling Their Dead Mother. After A Short While They Shuddered And Went Away. They Had Sensed That She Could No Longer See Them And That She Wasn't Like Them Any More. What They Loved In Their Mother Wasn't Her Body, But Whatever It Was That Made Her Body Live.

When A Man Comes To Me, I Accept Him At His Best, Not At His Worst. Why Make So Much Ado? When A Man Washes His Hands Before Paying A Visit, And You Receive Him In That Clean State, You Do Not Thereby Stand Surety For His Always Having Been Clean In The Past.

It Is Goodness That Gives To A Neighborhood Its Beauty. One Who Is Free To Choose, Yet Does Not Prefer To Dwell Among The Good - How Can He Be Accorded The Name Of Wise?

The Superior Man... Does Not Set His Mind Either For Or Against Anything, He Will Pursue Whatever Is Right. The Superior Man Thinks Of Virtue, The Common Man Of Comfort.