Tao Te Ching

“Confucianism stood for a rationalized social order through the ethical approach, based on personal cultivation. It aimed at political order by laying the basis for it in a moral order, and it sought political harmony by trying to achieve the moral harmony in man himself. Thus its most curious characteristic was the abolition of the distinction between politics and ethics.”

— Lín Yǔtáng 林語堂 1895 – 1976 CE
from Wisdom of Confucius (1938)