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HabitAttested · Confucius

Ritual courtesy

Without the rites, respect becomes drudgery, and frankness, a wound.

For , daily courtesies (the greeting, politeness, the forms of respect) are no idle customs: performed with care and not by rote, they give body to the regard people owe one another and weave the harmony of a community. To take up this habit is to treat the small forms of common life as what expresses and sustains the bond, rather than a constraint to be dispatched.

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Source: Confucius