CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
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demeanor, he is anxious that it should be respectful. In regard to<br />
his speech, he is anxious that it should be sincere. In regard to his<br />
doing of business, he is anxious that it should be reverently careful.<br />
In regard to what he doubts about, he is anxious to question others.<br />
When he is angry, he thinks of the difficulties (his anger may<br />
involve him in). When he sees gain to be got, he thinks of<br />
righteousness.'<br />
CHAP. XI. 1. Confucius said, 'Contemplating good, and pursuing<br />
it, as if they could not reach it; contemplating evil, and shrinking<br />
from it, as they would from thrusting the hand into boiling water:--<br />
I have seen such men, as I have heard such words.<br />
2. 'Living in retirement to study their aims, and practising<br />
righteousness to carry out their principles:-- I have heard these<br />
words, but I have not seen such men.'<br />
CHAP. XII. 1. The duke Ching of Ch'i had a thousand teams,<br />
each of four horses, but on the day of his death, the people did not<br />
praise him for a single virtue. Po-i and Shu-ch'i died of hunger at<br />
the foot of the Shau-yang mountain, and the people, down to the<br />
present time, praise them.<br />
2. 'Is not that saying illustrated by this?'<br />
CHAP. XIII. 1. Ch'an K'ang asked Po-yu, saying, 'Have you<br />
heard any lessons from your father different from what we have all<br />
heard?'<br />
2. Po-yu replied, 'No. He was standing alone once, when I<br />
passed below the hall with hasty steps, and said to me, "Have you<br />
learned the Odes?" On my replying "Not yet," he added, "If you do<br />
not learn the Odes, you will not be fit to converse with." I retired<br />
and studied the Odes.<br />
3. 'Another day, he was in the same way standing alone, when<br />
I passed by below the hall with hasty steps, and said to me, 'Have<br />
you learned the rules of Propriety?' On my replying 'Not yet,' he<br />
added, 'If you do not learn the rules of Propriety, your character<br />
cannot be established.' I then retired, and learned the rules of<br />
Propriety.<br />
4. 'I have heard only these two things from him.'<br />
5. Ch'ang K'ang retired, and, quite delighted, said, 'I asked one<br />
thing, and I have got three things. I have heard about the Odes. I