Chapter

 1 2 |   leisure have they to cultivate propriety and righteousness?'~23. '
 2 6 | complaisance is the principle of propriety. The feeling of approving
 3 6 |      ensue the entire absence of propriety and righteousness; -- he
 4 7 |     accordance with that rule of propriety.'~6. Mencius answered him, '
 5 9 |    should be served according to propriety; when they are dead, they
 6 9 |    should be buried according to propriety; and they should be sacrificed
 7 9 |       sacrificed to according to propriety: -- this may be called filial
 8 12|          doing so by any want of propriety. As it is the rule, therefore,
 9 13|         not observe the rules of propriety, and inferiors do not learn,
10 13|        from it without regard to propriety, and who in their words
11 13|       disown in his conversation propriety and righteousness, is what
12 14|       them. The richest fruit of propriety is this, -- the ordering
13 15|        According to the rules of propriety, a minister wears mourning
14 15|           Mencius said, 'Acts of propriety which are not really proper,
15 16|          namely, benevolence and propriety.~2. 'The benevolent man
16 16|         loves others. The man of propriety shows respect to others.~
17 16|        must have been wanting in propriety; -- how should this have
18 16|        is specially observant of propriety. The perversity and unreasonableness
19 16|        which is not according to propriety. If there should befall
20 18|         into office according to propriety, and retired from it according
21 19|         doing so is according to propriety; -- in such a case Confucius
22 19|         in a manner according to propriety; -- would the reception
23 19|          they put a good face of propriety on their gifts, then the
24 20|       this is in accordance with propriety. But for a scholar to accept
25 20|        is not in accordance with propriety.'~2. Wan Chang said, 'If
26 20|       man, and it is the rule of propriety that common men, who have
27 20|    righteousness is the way, and propriety is the door, but it is only
28 21|        respect, the principle of propriety; and that of approving and
29 21|      Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused
30 22|     without any consideration of propriety or righteousness. What can
31 23|       observance of the rules of propriety in regard to eating, or
32 23|       observance of the rules of propriety is the more important.'~
33 23|        according to the rules of propriety, the more important?' The
34 23|       observance of the rules of propriety in the matter is the more
35 23|        according to the rules of propriety will be death by starvation,
36 23|       the observing the rules of propriety is of little importance,
37 23|       the observing the rules of propriety is of little importance,
38 25|      benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge. These are
39 27|         2. 'Without the rules of propriety and distinctions of right,