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!
