The feeling of commiseration is the feeling of humanity;...

The feeling of commiseration is the feeling of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right and wrong is the beginning of wisdom. Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs.
Confucian proverbs

Proverbs and old sayings about beginning, rightness, humanity, shame, bad, wisdom, man.

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