SERVING THE SOVEREIGN
Confucius said: “A good man always endeavours, while he is in the
service of his sovereign, to express the utmost loyalty during
audience with his August Master, and thinks at his leisure how to
repair any wrong his August Master may have done. He will carry out
any praiseworthy schemes projected by his master, and will correct
any fault which he may commit. In this way a great affection will be
fostered between them.
“Thus in the _Shih Ching_ it is written: ‘Although the minister may be
far away from his master, yet his affection will not be affected by the
distance. He is so attached to him that he thinks of him every day.’”