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If One Leads Them With Administrative Measures And Uses Punishments To Make Them Conform, The People Will Be Evasive, But If One Leads Them With Virtue, They Will Come Up To Expectations.

The Wise Men Of Antiquity, When They Wished To Make The Whole World Peaceful And Happy, First Put Their Own States Into Proper Order. Before Putting Their States Into Proper Order, They Regulated Their Own Families. Before Regulating Their Families, They Regulated Themselves. Before Regulating Themselves, They Tried To Be Sincere In Their Thoughts. Before Being Sincere In Their Thoughts, They Tried To See Things Exactly As They Really Were.

Excess Weakens The Spirits.

Ceremonies Are The First Thing To Be Attended To In The Practice Of Government.

When Nature Exceeds Culture, We Have The Rustic. When Culture Exceeds Nature, We Have The Pedant.