To Be Fond Of Learning Is Near

Sincerity Is The End And Beginning Of Things; Without Sincerity There Would Be Nothing.

It Is Better Not To Proceed At All Than To Proceed Without Purpose.

Clever Talk Can Confound The Workings Of Virtue, Just As Small Impatiences Can Confound Great Projects.

If One Learns From Others, But Does Not Think, One Will Be Bewildered. If, On The Other Hand, One Thinks But Does Not Learn From Others, One Will Be In Peril.

How Great Is The Path Proper To The Sage! Like Overflowing Water, It Sends Forth And Nourishes All Things, And Rises Up To The Height Of Heaven. All-complete Is Its Greatness! It Embraces The Three Hundred Rules Of Ceremony, And The Three Thousand Rules Of Demeanor. It Waits For The Proper Man, And Then It Is Trodden. Hence It Is Said, 'only By Perfect Virtue Can The Perfect Path, In All Its Courses, Be Made A Fact.'