16 October 2023

Simplicity of habit

 




[Under] the great superiors the inferiors not know the existence of them.
[Where] their next [rule][the people] are attached to them, they praise them.
[Where] their next [rule][the people] fear them.
[Where] their next [rule][the people] despise them.

Therefore [when] faith is not sufficient one finds not faith.

[How] reluctantly!
Oh! they esteem [their] words.
Merits [they] perform, deeds accomplish;
the hundred families all say we [are] self-like.



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