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If you don’t know etiquette, you can’t stand up. English

If you don’t know etiquette, you can’t live in society.

There is a concise divine translation of Manners maketh man in the movie "Kingsman" (this is Old English, modern English can use Manners make the man).

Original text?

20·3 Confucius said: "If you don't know destiny, you can't be a gentleman; if you don't know etiquette, you can't stand up; if you don't know trust, you can't know people."?< /p>

Translation?

Confucius said: "If you don't understand the destiny of heaven, you can't be a gentleman; if you don't know etiquette, you can't live in society; if you don't know how to distinguish other people's words, you can't truly understand them." ?

Commentary?

In this chapter, Confucius once again puts forward three requirements for the gentleman, namely, "knowing fate", "knowing etiquette" and "knowing words". These are the special requirements for a gentleman to conduct himself in life. Attention issues. The last chapter of the book "The Analects" talks about the personality of a gentleman, which shows that the focus of this book is to shape a gentleman with an ideal personality and cultivate benevolent people who can govern the country and bring peace to the world.