It Is More Shameful To Distrust Our

We Are So Busy Doing The Urgent That We Don't Have Time To Do The Important.

Respect The Gods, But Have As Little To Do With Them As Possible.

Clever Talk And Domineering Manner Have Little To With Being A Man At His Best.

Do Not Impose On Others What You Yourself Do Not Desire.

On Matters Beyond His Ken A Gentleman Speaks With Caution. If Names Are Not Right, Words Are Misused. When Words Are Misused, Affairs Go Wrong. When Affairs Go Wrong, Courtesy And Music Droop, Law And Justice Fail. And When Law And Justice Fail Them, A People Can Move Neither Hand Nor Foot. So A Gentleman Must Be Ready To Put Names In Speech, To Put Words Into Deeds. A Gentleman Is Nowise Careless Of Words.