The Master said, Be faithful and true of word, plain and lowly in thy walk; thou wilt get on even in tribal lands. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk not plain and lowly, wilt thou get on even in thine own town? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on. Tzu-chang wrote them on his girdle. 6. The Master said, Straight indeed was the historian Yue! Like an arrow whilst the land kept the Way; and like an arrow when it lost the Way! What a gentleman was Ch'ue Po-yue! Whilst the land kept the Way he took office, and when the land had lost the Way he rolled himself up in thought. 7. The Master said, Not to speak to him that has ears to hear is to spill the man. To speak to a man without ears to hear is to spill thy words. Wisdom spills neither man nor words. 8. The Master said, A high will, or a loving heart, will not seek life at cost of love. To fulfil love they will kill the body. 9. Tzu-kung asked how to attain to love. The Master said, A workman bent on good work must first sharpen his tools. In the land that is thy home, serve those that are worthy among the great and make friends with loving knights. 10. Yen Yuean asked how to rule a kingdom. The Master said, Follow the Hsia seasons, drive in the chariot of Yin, wear the head-dress of Chou, take for music the Shao and its dance. Banish the strains of Cheng and flee men that are glib; for the strains of Cheng are wanton and glib speakers are dangerous. 11. The Master said. Without thought for far off things, there shall be trouble near at hand. 12. The Master said, All is ended! I have seen no one that loves mind as he loves looks! 13. The Master said, Did not Tsang Wen filch his post? He knew the worth of Liu-hsia Hui,[139] and did not stand by him. 14. The Master said, By asking much of self and little of other men ill feeling is banished. 15. The Master said, Unless a man say, Would this do? Would that do? I can do nothing for him. 16. The Master said, When all day long there is no talk of right, and little wiles find favour, the company is in hard case. 17. The Master said, Right is the stuff of which a gentleman is made. Done with courtesy, spoken with humility, rounded with truth, right makes a gentleman. 18. The Master said, His shortcomings trouble a gentleman; to be unknown does not trouble him. 19. The Master said, A gentleman fears that his name shall be no more heard when life is done.