THE ANALECTS. Confucius

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      3. ‘Examine in what things he rests.

      4. ‘How can a man conceal his character?

      5. How can a man conceal his character?’

       Chapter XI

      The Master said, ‘If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.’

       Chapter XII

      The Master said, ‘The accomplished scholar is not a utensil.’

       Chapter XIII

      Tsze-kung asked what constituted the superior man. The Master said, ‘He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.’

       Chapter XIV

      The Master said, ‘The superior man is catholic and no partisan. The mean man is partisan and not catholic.’

       Chapter XV

      The Master said, ‘Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.’

       Chapter XVI

      The Master said, ‘The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!’

       Chapter XVII

      The Master said, ‘Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;—this is knowledge.’

       Chapter XVII

      1. Tsze-chang was learning with a view to official emolument.

      2. The Master said, ‘Hear much and put aside the points of which you stand in doubt, while you speak cautiously at the same time of the others:—then you will afford few occasions for blame. See much and put aside the things which seem perilous, while you are cautious at the same time in carrying the others into practice:—then you will have few occasions for repentance. When one gives few occasions for blame in his words, and few occasions for repentance in his conduct, he is in the way to get emolument.’

       Chapter XIX

      The Duke Ai asked, saying, ‘What should be done in order to secure the submission of the people?’ Confucius replied, ‘Advance the upright and set aside the crooked, then the people will submit. Advance the crooked and set aside the upright, then the people will not submit.’

       Chapter XX

      Chi K’ang asked how to cause the people to reverence their ruler, to be faithful to him, and to go on to nerve themselves to virtue. The Master said, ‘Let him preside over them with gravity;—then they will reverence him. Let him be filial and kind to all;—then they will be faithful to him. Let him advance the good and teach the incompetent;—then they will eagerly seek to be virtuous.’

       Chapter XXI

      1. Some one addressed Confucius, saying, ‘Sir, why are you not engaged in the government?’

      2. The Master said, ‘What does the Shu-ching say of filial piety?—“You are filial, you discharge your brotherly duties. These qualities are displayed in government.” This then also constitutes the exercise of government. Why must there be That—making one be in the government?’

       Chapter XXII

      The Master said, ‘I do not know how a man without truthfulness is to get on. How can a large carriage be made to go without the cross-bar for yoking the oxen to, or a small carriage without the arrangement for yoking the horses?’

       Chapter XXIII

      1. Tsze-chang asked whether the affairs of ten ages after could be known.

      2. Confucius said, ‘The Yin dynasty followed the regulations of the Hsia: wherein it took from or added to them may be known. The Chau dynasty has followed the regulations of Yin: wherein it took from or added to them may be known. Some other may follow the Chau, but though it should be at the distance of a hundred ages, its affairs may be known.’

       Chapter XXIV

      1. The Master said, ‘For a man to sacrifice to a spirit which does not belong to him is flattery.

      2. ‘To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.’

      BOOK III: PA YIH.

       Table of Contents

       Chapter I

      Confucius said of the head of the Chi family, who had eight rows of pantomimes in his area, ‘If he can bear to do this, what may he not bear to do?’

       Chapter II

      The three families used the Yung ode, while the vessels were being removed, at the conclusion of the sacrifice. The Master said, ‘“Assisting are the princes;—the son of heaven looks profound and grave:”—what application can these words have in the hall of the three families?’

       Chapter III

      The Master said, ‘If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?’

       Chapter IV

      1. Lin Fang asked what was the first thing to be attended to in ceremonies.

      2. The Master said, ‘A great question indeed!

      3. ‘In festive ceremonies, it is better to be sparing than extravagant.

      In the ceremonies of mourning, it is better that there be deep sorrow than a minute attention to observances.’

       Chapter V

      The Master said, ‘The rude tribes of the east and north have their princes, and are not like the States of our great land which are without them.’

       Chapter VI

      The chief of the Chi family was about to sacrifice to the T’ai mountain. The Master said to Zan Yu, ‘Can you not save him from this?’ He answered, ‘I cannot.’ Confucius said, ‘Alas! СКАЧАТЬ