Author name: Zheng

A Question of Benevolence: “To Repress Faults is Hard, But Is It Perfect Virtue?”

The Shame of a Scholar-Official: “Thinking Only of Salary Whether the State Has the Way or Not”

A Grave Warning: To Use the Uninstructed in War Is to Abandon Them

The Power of Good Instruction: Seven Years to Make a People Ready for War

The Scholar’s Way in Relationships: Earnest with Friends, Harmonious with Brethren

The Qualities Near to Benevolence: Firmness, Endurance, Simplicity, Modesty

The Inner State: Dignified Ease Versus Empty Pride

The Traits of a Mean Man: Hard to Serve, Easy to Please Wrongly, Demanding Perfection

The Mark of a Superior Man: Easy to Serve, Hard to Please, Wise in Employing

The True Measure of a Man: Loved by the Good, Hated by the Bad

The Harmony of Differences: “The Superior Man is Harmonious but Not Uniform”

The Consequence of Inconstancy: “To Be Inconstant in Virtue is to Invite Disgrace”

The Prerequisite for Any Craft: “A Man Without Constancy Cannot Be a Doctor”

The Next Best Choice: The Ardent and the Cautiously-Decided

The Master’s Contempt: “Those Petty Men Are Not Worth Counting”