When You Breathe, You Inspire, And When

The One Who Was Born A Genius Can't Win Against The One Who Tries, And The One Who Tries Can't Win Against The One Who Enjoys.

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.'

Earnest In Practicing The Ordinary Virtues, And Careful In Speaking About Them, If, In His Practice, He Has Anything Defective, The Superior Man Dares Not But Exert Himself; And If, In His Words, He Has Any Excess, He Dares Not Allow Himself Such License.

There Are Three Unfilial Acts: The Greatest Of These Is The Failure To Produce Sons.

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.