CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS
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here leads to dissipation of mind. There is the love of being sincere<br />
without the love of learning;-- the beclouding here leads to an<br />
injurious disregard of consequences. There is the love of<br />
straightforwardness without the love of learning;-- the beclouding<br />
here leads to rudeness. There is the love of boldness without the<br />
love of learning;-- the beclouding here leads to insubordination.<br />
There is the love of firmness without the love of learning;-- the<br />
beclouding here leads to extravagant conduct.'<br />
CHAP. IX. 1. The Master said, 'My children, why do you not<br />
study the Book of Poetry?<br />
2. 'The Odes serve to stimulate the mind.<br />
3. 'They may be used for purposes of self-contemplation.<br />
4. 'They teach the art of sociability.<br />
5. 'They show how to regulate feelings of resentment.<br />
6. 'From them you learn the more immediate duty of serving<br />
one's father, and the remoter one of serving one's prince.<br />
7. 'From them we become largely acquainted with the names<br />
of birds, beasts, and plants.'<br />
CHAP. X. The Master said to Po-yu, 'Do you give yourself to<br />
the Chau-nan and the Shao-nan. The man who has not studied the<br />
Chau-nan and the Shao-nan, is like one who stands with his face<br />
right against a wall. Is he not so?'<br />
CHAP. XI. The Master said, '"It is according to the rules of<br />
propriety," they say.-- "It is according to the rules of propriety,"<br />
they say. Are gems and silk all that is meant by propriety? "It is<br />
music," they say.-- "It is music," they say. Are bells and drums all<br />
that is meant by music?'<br />
CHAP. XII. The Master said, 'He who puts on an appearance of<br />
stern firmness, while inwardly he is weak, is like one of the small,<br />
mean people;-- yea, is he not like the thief who breaks through, or<br />
climbs over, a wall?'<br />
CHAP. XIII. The Master said, 'Your good, careful people of the<br />
villages are the thieves of virtue.'<br />
CHAP. XIV. The Master said, 'To tell, as we go along, what we