CHAPTER II.
1. The Master said, 'Respectfulness, without
the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the
rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety,
becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety,
becomes rudeness.
2. 'When those who are in high stations
perform well all their duties to their relations, the people are aroused to
virtue. When old friends are not neglected by them, the people are preserved
from meanness.'
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by The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, © Copyright 2003
by Anne Kinney and the University of Virginia