clean oneself and perform a duty
To be honest is a Chinese word. The Pinyin is Ji é J ǐ f è NGG ō ng, which means to keep yourself clean and pursue public affairs wholeheartedly.
The source of the book of song, biography of Linyi, is that "the law orders Su Qi, the culture and the martial arts complete Li, the integrity of oneself and the devotion to the public, and the body leads down." I can't imagine that the governor would be the first-class official. Li Baojia's a brief history of civilization in Qing Dynasty
clean oneself and perform a duty
It's hard to live up to its reputation - shèng míng zhī xià,qí shí nán fù
Bullying the hard and fearing the soft - qī yìng pà ruǎn
reach the same goal by different means - shū zhì tóng guī
a woman of low birth may marry into the purple - fū róng qī xiǎn