5. Tzu-chang asked about getting on with people. The Master said, Be loyal and true to your every word, serious and careful in all you do; and you will get on well enough, even though you find yourself among barbarians. But if you are disloyal and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your acts, even though you are among your own neighbours, how can you hope to get on well? When standing, see these principles ranged before you; in your carriage, see them resting on the yoke. Then you may be sure that you will get on. Tzu-chang accordingly inscribed the maxim upon his sash.
-The Analects of Confucius, Book XV
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