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Wisdom about manners & etiquette.
What people have learned about manners & etiquette the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness, the ruler of movement.
Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the Lord.
That whereby the rivers and seas are able to receive the homage and tribute of all the valley streams, is their skill in being lower than they;—it is thus that they are the kings of them all. So it is that the sage (ruler), wishing to be above men, puts himself by his words below them, and, wishing to be before them, places his person behind them.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.