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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- The origin of the social bond · Organic community
Source: Confucius