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.