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Note 15. A town in Lu, belonging to the Chi. [back]
Note 16. A disciple [back]
Note 17. A disciple. [back]
Note 18. The dissolute wife of Duke Ling of Wei. [back]
Note 19. Two emperors of the golden age. [back]







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The Sayings of Confucius.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
VII
[1] THE MASTER said: “A teller and not a maker, one who trusts and loves the past; I may be likened to
our old Pґeng.” 1
[2] The Master said: “A silent communer, an ever hungry learner, a still unflagging teacher; am I any
of these?”
[3] The Master said: “Neglect of what is good in me; want of thoroughness in study; failure to do the
right when told me; lack of strength to overcome faults, these are my sorrows.”
[4] In his free moments the Master was easy and cheerful.
[5] The Master said: “How deep is my decay! It is long since I saw the Duke of Chou 2 in a dream.”
[6] The Master said: “Will the right; hold to good won; rest in love; move in art.”
[7] The Master said: “From the man who paid in dried meat upwards, I have withheld teaching from
no one.”
[8] The Master said: “Only to those fumbling do I open, only for those stammering do I find the word.
From him who cannot turn the whole when I lift a corner I desist.”
[9] When eating beside a mourner the Master never ate his fill. On days when he had been wailing, the
Master did not sing.
[10] The Master said to Yen Yьan: “I and thou alone can both fill a post when given one and live
unseen when passed by.”
Tzu-lu said: “Had ye to command three armies, Sir, who should go with you?”
“No man,” said the Master, “ready to fly unarmed at a tiger, or plunge into a river and die without
a pang should be with me; but one, rather, who is wary before a move and gains his end by well-laid
plans.”
[11] The Master said: “Were shouldering a whip a sure road to riches, I would turn carter: but since
there is no sure road, I tread the path I love.”
[12] The Master gave heed to devotions, war, and sickness.
[13] When the Master was in Chґi for three months after hearing the Shao played he knew not the taste
of meat.
“I did not suppose,” he said, “that music could touch such heights.”
[14] Jan Yu said: “Is the Master for the King of Wei?” 3
“I will ask him, said Tzu-kung.
He went in, and said: “What kind of men were Po-yi 4 and Shu-chґi?”
“Worthy men of yore,” said the Master.
“Did they rue the past?”
“They sought love and found it; what had they to rue?”