The gentleman is ashamed when his words exceed his deeds.
By the same author and on kindred topics.
If I am upright, people will act without being ordered. If I am not upright, they will not obey even when I give orders.
At first, my way with men was to hear their words and give them credit for their conduct. Now my way is to hear their words and look at their conduct.
The ancients did not readily give utterance to their words, for they were ashamed lest their actions should not come up to them.
When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, and their bad qualities I will correct in myself.
The mind of the superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.
To have faults and not to reform them, this indeed should be pronounced having faults.
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