Note 9 — THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
Lionel Giles translation
Legge translates: "When rulers love to observe the rules of propriety (!), the people respond readily to the calls on them for service." All the other translators seem likewise to have missed the point, which is elsewhere insisted on by Confucius—that no man is fit to govern others who cannot govern himself. On the meaning of li, see Introduction, pp. 30 seqq., and note on p. 60.