Mencius. Book 3, Part 2, Chapter 2.
Book 3, T'ang Wan Kung. Part 2.
1. King Ch'un said to Mencius, "Are not Kung-sun Yen and Chang E really great men? Let them once be angry, and all the princes are afraid. Let them live quietly, and the flames of troubles are extinguished throughout the empire.
2. Mencius said, "How can such men be great men? Have you not read the Ritual Usages? ‹ 'At the capping of a young man, his father admonishes him. At the marriage of a young woman, her mother admonishes her, accompanying her to the door on her leaving, and cautioning her with these words, You are going to your home. You must be respectful; you must be careful. Do not disobey your husband.' Thus, to look upon compliance as their correct course is the rule for women.
3. "To dwel in the wide house of the world, to stand in the correct seat of the world, and to walk in the great path of the world; when he obtains his desire for office, to practice his principles for the good of the people; and when that desire is disappointed, to practice them alone; to be above the power of riches and honors to make dissipated, of poverty and mean condition to make swerve from principle, and of power and force to make them bend ‹ these characteristics constitute the great man."
Book 3, T'ang Wan Kung. Part 2.
1. King Ch'un said to Mencius, "Are not Kung-sun Yen and Chang E really great men? Let them once be angry, and all the princes are afraid. Let them live quietly, and the flames of troubles are extinguished throughout the empire.
2. Mencius said, "How can such men be great men? Have you not read the Ritual Usages? ‹ 'At the capping of a young man, his father admonishes him. At the marriage of a young woman, her mother admonishes her, accompanying her to the door on her leaving, and cautioning her with these words, You are going to your home. You must be respectful; you must be careful. Do not disobey your husband.' Thus, to look upon compliance as their correct course is the rule for women.
3. "To dwel in the wide house of the world, to stand in the correct seat of the world, and to walk in the great path of the world; when he obtains his desire for office, to practice his principles for the good of the people; and when that desire is disappointed, to practice them alone; to be above the power of riches and honors to make dissipated, of poverty and mean condition to make swerve from principle, and of power and force to make them bend ‹ these characteristics constitute the great man."
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Text source: The Works of Mencius. Translated by James Legge.
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