Requirement of a Ruler

Let but a prince cultivate virtue, people will flock to him; with people will come to him lands; lands will bring forth for him wealth; wealth will give him the benefit of right uses. Virtue is the root, and wealth an outcome. Confucius

Cowardice

Perceiving what is right, and doing it not, argues lack of courage. Confucius

Courage

Courage is the knowledge of things that a man should fear and that he should not fear. Plato

The Straight and Narrow Path

Mencius calls Benevolence man’s mind, and Rectitude or Righteousness his path. “How lamentable is it to neglect the path and not pursue it, to lose the mind and not know to seek it again! When men’s fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it. Mencius