Confucian Proverb: "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 about:
 Beginning | Beginnings | Commiseration | Compliance |
| Deference | Dislike | Feeling | Four |
| Humanity | Just | Limbs | Propriety |
| Right | Righteousness | Shame | These |
| Wisdom | Wrong |