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32[1]

If jade is not polished, it will not be a perfect vessel; if a man
is not taught, his will not be perfect conduct. Though you have in
your house jade worth a thousand [pieces of] gold, you still will
be poor unless you know how to handle it. If a good craftsman
works on it, then it will be valued and handed down to posterity.
When a superior man studies,[2] then he is of use to the state.
Truly in his movements he makes the people easy, and his deliberations
result in an extension of human life.

The Ode says,[3]

The virtuous man, the princely one,
Rectifies the people of the state.
He rectifies the people of the state:—
May he continue for ten thousand years!
 
[1]

Li chi 36.1b-2a.

[2]

For [OMITTED] B, C, D and the Yüan ed. have [OMITTED] "plan." Chao Yu-wen (109) thinks
the text is defective before this phrase.

[3]

Shih 224 No. 152/4.