8.16The Master said, “Impetuous, but tricky! Ingenuous, but dishonest! Simple-minded, but capable of breaking promises! To such men I can give no recognition.”
8.13The Master said, “Be of unwavering good faith, love learning, if attacked be ready to die for the good Way. Do not enter a State that pursues dangerous courses, nor stay in one where the people have rebelled. When the Way prevails under Heaven, then show yourself; when it does not prevail, then hide.…
8.12 The Master said, “One who will study for three yearsWithout thought of rewardWould be hard indeed to find.”
8.9The Master said, “The common people can be made to follow it; they cannot be made to understand it.”
8.8The Master said,”Let a man be first incited by the Songs, then given a firm footing by the study of ritual, and finally perfected by music.”