A Youth Is To Be Regarded With

The Way Of The Superior Man May Be Compared To What Takes Place In Traveling, When To Go To A Distance We Must First Traverse The Space That Is Near, And In Ascending A Height, When We Must Begin From The Lower Ground.

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.

Rate The Task Above The Prize; Will Not The Mind Be Raised? Fight Thine Own Faults, Not The Faults Of Others; Will Not Evil Be Mended?

Past Scholars Studied To Improve Themselves; Today's Scholars Study To Impress Others.

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.'