Chinese and Arabian Literature - E. Wilson - The Search For Mecca

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ions preceding you, yourself viewing them from behind ;
when
you drive, have them in view as on the yoke of your carriage.
Then may you make your way."
Tsz-chang wrote them on the two ends of his cincture.
" Straight was the course of the AnnaHst Yu," said the Mas-
ter — " aye, straight as an arrow flies ; were the country well
governed or ill governed, his was an arrow-like course.
" A man of masterly mind, too, is Kii Pih-yuh ! When th«
land is being rightly governed he will serve ; when it is under
bad government he is apt to recoil, and brood."
*' Not to speak to a man," said he, " to whom you ought to
speak, is to lose your man ;
to speak to one to whom you ought
not to speak is to lose your words. Those who are wise will
not lose their man, nor yet their words."
Again, " The scholar whose heart is in his work, and who is
philanthropic, seeks not to gain a livelihood by any means that
will do harm to his philanthropy. There have been men who
have destroyed their own lives in the endeavor to bring that
virtue in them to perfection."
Tsz-kung asked how to become philanthropic. The Master
answered him thus : " A workman who wants to do his work
well must first sharpen his tools. In whatever land you live,
serve under some wise and good man among those in high
ofBce, and make friends with the more humane of its men of
education."
Yen Yuen consulted him on the management of a country.
He answered :
—
" Go by the Hia Calendar. Have the State carriages like
those of the Yin princes. Wear the Chow cap. For your
music let that of Shun be used for the posturers. Put away the
songs of Ch'ing, and remove far from you men of artful speech :
the Ch'ing songs are immodest, and artful talkers are dan-
gerous."
Other sayings of the Master :
—
" They who care not for the morrow will the sooner have
their sorrow.
"Ah, 'tis hopeless ! I have not yet met with the man who loves
Virtue as he loves Beauty.
" Was not Tsang Wan like one who surreptitiously came by
the post he held ? He knew the worth of Hwui of Liu-hia, and
could not stand in his presence.