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In Dealing With The Dead, If We Treat Them As If They Were Entirely Dead, That Would Show A Want Of Affection And Should Not Be Done; Or, If We Treat Them As If They Were Entirely Alive, That Would Show A Want Of Wisdom And Should Not Be Done.

The Path May Not Be Left For An Instant. If It Could Be Left, It Would Not Be The Path.

Go Before The People With Your Example, And Be Laborious In Their Affairs.

If I Hold Up One Corner Of A Square And The Student Cannot Workout The Other Three For Himself, I Won't Go Any Further.

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.