CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
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from the world.<br />
2. Some retire from particular states.<br />
3. Some retire because of disrespectful looks.<br />
4. Some retire because of contradictory language.'<br />
CHAP. XL. The Master said, 'Those who have done this are<br />
seven men.'<br />
CHAP. XLI. Tsze-lu happening to pass the night in Shih-man,<br />
the gatekeeper said to him, 'Whom do you come from?' Tsze-lu said,<br />
'From Mr. K'ung.' 'It is he,-- is it not?'-- said the other, 'who knows<br />
the impracticable nature of the times and yet will be doing in<br />
them.'<br />
CHAP. XLII. 1. The Master was playing, one day, on a musical<br />
stone in Wei, when a man, carrying a straw basket, passed the door<br />
of the house where Confucius was, and said, 'His heart is full who so<br />
beats the musical stone.'<br />
2. A little while after, he added, 'How contemptible is the<br />
one-ideaed obstinacy those sounds display! When one is taken no<br />
notice of, he has simply at once to give over his wish for public<br />
employment. "Deep water must be crossed with the clothes on;<br />
shallow water may be crossed with the clothes held up."'<br />
3. The Master said, 'How determined is he in his purpose! But<br />
this is not difficult!'<br />
CHAP. XLIII. 1. Tsze-chang said, 'What is meant when the Shu<br />
says that Kao-tsung, while observing the usual imperial mourning,<br />
was for three years without speaking?'<br />
2. The Master said, 'Why must Kao-tsung be referred to as an<br />
example of this? The ancients all did so. When the sovereign died,<br />
the officers all attended to their several duties, taking instructions<br />
from the prime minister for three years.'<br />
CHAP. XLIV. The Master said, 'When rulers love to observe<br />
the rules of propriety, the people respond readily to the calls on<br />
them for service.'<br />
CHAP. XLV. Tsze-lu asked what constituted the superior man.<br />
The Master said, 'The cultivation of himself in reverential