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go!’”
[14] The Master said: “Unless glib as the reader Tґo, and handsome as Chao of Sung, escape is hard in
the times that be!”
[15] The Master said: “Who can go out except by the door? Why is it no one keeps to the way?”
[16] The Master said: “Nature outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing nature begets
pedantry. Art and nature well blent make a gentleman.”
[17] The Master said: “Man is born upright. If he cease to be so and live, he is lucky to escape!”
[18] The Master said: “Who knows does not rank with him who likes, nor he who likes with him who is
glad therein.”
[19] The Master said: “To men above the common we may speak of things above the common. To men
below the common we must not speak of things above the common.”
[20] Fan Chґih 16 asked, What is wisdom?
The Master said: “To foster right amongst the people; to honour the ghosts of the dead, whilst
keeping aloof from them, may be called wisdom.”
He asked, What is love?
The Master said: “To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”
[21] The Master said: “Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is
quiet. Wisdom enjoys life; love grows old.”
[22] The Master said: “By one revolution Chґi might grown as Lu: by one revolution Lu might win to
truth.”
[23] The Master said: “A drinking horn that is no horn! What a horn! What a drinking horn!”
[24] Tsai Wo 17 said: “Were a man who loves told that there is a man in a well, would he go in after
him?”
The Master said: “Why should he? A gentleman might be brought to the well, but not entrapped
into it. He may be cheated; he is not to be fooled.”
[25] The Master said: “By breadth of reading and the ties of courtesy a gentleman will also keep from
error’s path.”
[26] The Master saw Nan-tzu. 18 Tzu-lu was displeased. The Master took an oath, saying: “If there
were sin in me may Heaven forsake me, may Heaven forsake me!”
[27] The Master said: “The highest goodness is to hold fast the golden mean. Amongst the people it has
long been rare.”
[28] Tzu-kung said: “To treat the people with bounty and help the many, how were that? Could it be
called love?”
The Master said: “What has this to do with love? Would it not be holiness? Both Yao and Shun 19
still yearned for this. In seeking a foothold for self, love finds a foothold for others; seeking light for
itself, it enlightens others also. To learn from the near at hand may be called the key to love.”
Note 1. The disciple Chung-kung. [back]
Note 2. The disciple Yen Yьan. [back]
Note 3. The disciple Kung-hsi Hua, or Kung-hsi Chґih. [back]
Note 4. The disciple Kung-hsi Hua, or Kung-hsi Chґih. [back]
Note 5. A disciple. [back]
Note 6. The disciple Yen Yьan. [back]
Note 7. Head of the Chi clan after the death of Chi Huan. [back]
Note 8. The disciple Tzu-lu. [back]
Note 9. The disciple Tzu-kung. [back]
Note 10. The disciple Jan Yu. [back]
Note 11. A disciple. [back]
Note 12. A disciple. [back]
Note 13. The disciple of Yen Yьan. [back]
Note 14. The disciple Jan Yu. [back]