51. He who tells me of my faults, is my instructor: he who tells me .of my virtues does me harm.
52. Let your words be few, and your companions select: thus you will escape remorse and repentance; thus you will avoid sorrow and .shame.
53. If a man's wishes be few, his health will be flourishing: if he has many anxious thoughts, his constitution will decay.
54.Honours come by diligence: riches spring from economy.
55. The mild and gentle must ultimately profit themselves: the violent and fierce must bring down misfortune.
56. If you wish to know what most engages a man's thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation.
57. In our actions, we should accord with the will of heaven: in our words, we should consult the feelings of men.
58. If a man be not enlightened within, what lamp shall he light? if his intentions be notupright, what prayers shall he repeat?
59. Man perishes in the pursuit of wealth; as the bird meets with destruction in search of its food.
60. Knowing what is right without practicing it, denotes a want of proper resolution.
61. There are plenty of men in the world, but very few heroes.
62. Poverty and ruin must in the end be proportioned to a man's wickedness and craft; for these are qualities which heaven will not suffer to prevail. Were riches and honours the proper results of crafty villainy, the better part of the world must fatten on the winds.
63. The best cure for drunkenness is, whilst sober, to observe a drunken man.
64. The opening flower blooms alike in all places: the moon sheds an equal radiance on every mountain and every- river. Evil exists only in the heart of man; all I other things shew the benevolence of heaven towards the human race.
65. Would you know the character of the Prince, examine his ministers; would you understand the disposition of any men, look at his companions; would you know that of a father, observe his son.
66. A man is as ignorant of his own failings; as the ox is unconscious of his great strength.
67. A man, by the cultivation of virtue, consults his own interest: .his stores of wisdom and reflexion are every day filling up.
68. Confucius says," The capacity for knowledge, of the inferior man, is small, and easily filled up: the intelligence of the superior man is deep, and not easily satisfied."
69. Though the ,screen be torn, its frame is still preserved: though the good man be plunged in want, his virtue still remains to him.
70. Without the wisdom of the learned, the clown could not be governed; without the. labour of the clown, the learned could ot be fed.
71. The cure of ignorance is study,--as meat is that of hunger
72. Though the white gem be cast into the dirt, its purity cannot be (lastingly) sullied: though the good man live. in a vile place, his heart cannot be depraved. As the fir and the cypress withstand the rigours of the winter, so resplendent wisdom is safe in situations of difficulty and danger.
73. It is not easy to stop the fire, when the water is at a distance: friends at band, are better than relations afar off.
74. If a man wish to attain to the excellence of superior beings, let him first cultivate the virtues of humanity; for if not perfect in human virtue, how shall he reach immortal perfection?
75. Man is born without .knowledge, and when he has obtained it, very soon becomes old: when his experience is ripe, death suddenly seizes him.
