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The Sayings of Confucius.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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[1] THE MASTER said: “Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got
wisdom?”
[2] The Master said: “Loveless men cannot bear need long, they cannot bear fortune long. Loving
hearts find peace in love; clever heads find profit in it.”
[3] The Master said: “Love can alone love others, or hate others.”
[4] The Master said: “A heart set on love will do no wrong.”
[5] The Master said: “Wealth and honours are what men desire; but abide not in them by help of
wrong. Lowliness and want are hated of men; but forsake them not by help of wrong.
“Shorn of love, is a gentleman worthy the name? Not for one moment may a gentleman sin against
love; not in flurry and haste, nor yet in utter overthrow.”
[6] The Master said: “A friend to love, a foe to evil, I have yet to meet. A friend to love will set
nothing higher. In love’s service, a foe to evil will let no evil touch him. Were a man to give himself
to love, but for one day, I have seen no one whose strength would fail him. Such men there may be,
but I have not seen one.”
[7] The Master said: “A man and his faults are of a piece. By watching his faults we learn whether
love be his.”
[8] The Master said: “To learn the truth at daybreak and die at eve were enough.”
[9] The Master said: “A scholar in search of truth who is ashamed of poor clothes and poor food it is
idle talking to.”
[10] The Master said: “A gentleman has no likes and no dislikes below heaven. He follows right.”
[11] The Master said: “Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the
vulgar trust in favour.”
[12] The Master said: “The chase of gain is rich in hate.”
[13] The Master said: “What is it to sway a kingdom by courteous yielding? Who cannot by courteous
yielding sway a kingdom, what can he know of courtesy?”
[14] The Master said: “Be not concerned at want of place; be concerned that thou stand thyself. Sorrow
not at being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.”
[15] The Master said: “One thread, Shen, 1 runs through all my teaching.”
“Yes,” said Tseng-tzu.
After the Master had left, the disciples asked what was meant.
Tseng-tzu said: “The Master’s teaching all hangs on faithfulness and fellow-feeling.”
[16] The Master said: “A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.”
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[17] The Master said: “At sight of worth, think to grow like it. When evil meets thee, search thine own
heart.”
[18] The Master said: “A father or mother may be gently chidden. If they will not bend, be the more
lowly, but persevere; nor murmur if trouble follow.”