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“ Among all the multitudes of people, when any have counsel, and conduct, and keep themselves from evil, do you bear them in mind; those who do not come up up to the highest excellence, and yet do not involve themselves in crime, let the sovereign receive; and when a placid satisfaction appears in their countenance, and they say — 'Our love is fixed on virtue,' do you then confer favour on them. Those men will in this way advance to the perfection of the sovereign. ”

“ Ninth, of the five happinesses.— The first is long life; the second is riches; the third is soundness of body and serenity of mind; the fourth is the love of virtue; the fifth is an end crowning the life. ”

“ The nature of water is to soak and descend; of fire, to blaze and ascend; of wood, to be crooked and to be straight; of metal, to obey and to change; while the virtue of earth is seen in seed-sowing and ingathering. That which soaks and descends becomes salt; that which blazes and ascends becomes bitter; that which is crooked and straight becomes sour ”