Chapter 66장
Daxue (The Great Learning) A piece of fewer than two thousand characters, and one of the most committed to memory in all East Asia. It opens with "making bright virtue bright, being close to the people, and coming to rest in the utmost good," and threads eight steps on a single line, from measuring things and extending knowing to the full all the way to bringing all under heaven to a level — the investigation of things, the extension of knowing, making the intent true, making the mind upright, cultivating the person, setting the household in order, governing the state, and bringing peace to all under heaven.
About the middle, "being careful when alone" comes twice, and the last chapter is given over wholly to wealth and to men. The saying that when wealth is gathered the people scatter and when wealth is scattered the people gather, and Meng Xianzi's word that one would sooner have a minister who steals than a minister who gathers in, are both here.
《詩》云：「邦畿千里，惟民所止。」《詩》云：「緡蠻黃鳥，止于丘隅。」子曰：「於止，知其所止，可以人而不如鳥乎？」《詩》云：「穆穆文王，於緝熙敬止！」爲人君，止於仁；爲人臣，止於敬；爲人子，止於孝；爲人父，止於慈；與國人交，止於信。
The Odes say, "The thousand li of the royal domain is where the people come to rest." The Odes say, "The twittering oriole comes to rest on a corner of the mound." Confucius said, "In coming to rest it knows where it should rest. Shall a man be less than a bird?"
The Odes say, "Deep and solemn was King Wen. Ah, unceasingly bright, he rested in reverence." To be a ruler is to rest in benevolence. To be a subject is to rest in respect. To be a son is to rest in filial love. To be a father is to rest in kindness. To deal with the people of the state is to rest in trust.