with the welfare of the State, it will only be by mistake that he will succeed.
- This passage is variously interpreted.
"To cause the people to leave the true and study the false does not so much affect the people of to-day as those of coming generations. Wherefore it is better not to have Confucius.
"The difficulty of governing lies in the inability to practise self-effacement. Man does not govern as God does.
- Regardless of self.
"Merchants and traders are altogether out of the pale.
- Of Tao.
Or if chance ever brings them within it, their rights are never freely admitted.
"External punishments are inflicted by metal and wood. Internal punishments are inflicted by anxiety and remorse. Fools who incur external punishment are treated with metal or wood. Those who incur internal punishment are devoured by the conflict of emotions. It is only the pure and perfect man who can succeed in avoiding both."
Confucius said, "The heart of man is more dangerous than mountains and rivers, more difficult to understand than Heaven itself. Heaven has its periods of spring, summer, autumn, winter, day-
