In the canon
The Doctrine of the Mean
Zisi
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 400 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Classical Chinese
- Pages
- Pages 80
You may rule a kingdom, decline its titles and salaries, walk barefoot over naked blades: none of it is as hard as holding the mean for a single day. The mean is not compromise but exact measure, joy and anger and grief arriving at their true size and no larger, and the sternest demand is made where nobody looks: the noble person keeps watch over himself when alone, careful in what no one sees or hears.
What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty
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