In Your Promises Cleave To What Is

Gentlemen Cherish Worth; The Vulgar Cherish Dirt. Gentlemen Trust In Justice; The Vulgar Trust In Favor.

He Who Wished To Secure The Good Of Others, Has Already Secured His Own.

A Superior Man In Dealing With The World Is Not For Anything Or Against Anything. He Follows Righteousness As The Standard.

The Superior Man, When Resting In Safety, Does Not Forget That Danger May Come. When In A State Of Security He Does Not Forget The Possibility Of Ruin. When All Is Orderly, He Does Not Forget That Disorder May Come. Thus His Person Is Not Endangered, And His States And All Their Clans Are Preserved.

It Is The Way Of The Superior Man To Prefer The Concealment Of His Virtue, While It Daily Becomes More Illustrious, And It Is The Way Of The Mean Man To Seek Notoriety, While He Daily Goes More And More To Ruin.