5. He went to the chiefs, and informed them, but they would not act. Confucius then said, "Following in the rear of the great officers, I did not dare not to represent such a matter.”

XXIII. Tsze-loo asked how a sovereign should be served. The Master said, "Do not impose on him, and, inoreover, withstand him to his face."

XXIV. The Master said, "The progress of the superior man is upwards; The progress of the mean man is downwards."

XXV. The Master said, "In ancient times, men learned with a view to their own improvement.

Nowa-days, men learn with a view to the approbation of others."

XXVI. 1. Keu Pih-yuh sent a messenger with friendly inquiries to Confucius.

2. Confucius sat with him, and questioned him. "What," said he, "is your master engaged in?" The messenger replied, "My master is anxious to make his faults few, but he has not yet succeeded." He then went out and the Master said, "A messenger indeed! A messenger indeed!"

XXVII. The Master said, "He who is not in any particular office, has nothing to do with plans for the administration of its duties."

XXVIII. The philosopher Tsang said, "The superior man, in his thoughts, does not go out of his place." XXIX. The Master said, "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

XXX. 1. The Master said, "The way of the superior man is threefold, but I am not equal to it. Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear."

2. Tsze-kung said, "Master, that is what you yourself

say."

XXXI. Tsze-kung was in the habit of comparing

men together.

The Master said, "Tsze must have reached a high pitch of excellence! Now, I have not leisure for this."

XXXII. The Master said, "I will not be concerned at men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.'

XXXIII. The Master said, "He who does not anticipate attempts to deceive him, nor think beforehand of his not being believed, and yet apprehends these things readily when they occur; is he not a man of superior worth?"

XXXIV. 1. We-shang Mow said to Confucius, "K‘ew, how is it that you keep roosting about? Is it not that you are an insinuating talker?"

2. Confucius said, "I do not dare to play the part of such a talker, but I hate obstinacy."

XXXV. The Master said, "A horse is called a le, not because of its strength, but because of its other good qualities."

XXXVI. 1. Some one said, "What do you say concerning the principle that injury should be recompensed with kindness?"

2. The Master said, "With what then will you rec ompense kindness?

3. "Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."

XXXVII. 1. The Master said, "Alas! there is no one that knows me."

2. Tsze-kung said, "What do you mean by thus saying-that no one knows you?" The Master replied, "I do not murmer against Heaven. I do not grumble against inen. My studies lie low, and my penetration rises high. But there is Heaven;-that knows me!"

XXXVIII. 1. The Kung-pih, Leaou, having slandered Tsze-loo to Ke-sun, Tsze-fuk King-pih informed Confucius of it, saying, "Our master is certainly being

led astray by the Kung-pih, Leaou, but I have still power enough left to cut Leaou off, and expose his corpse in the market and in the court.

2. The Master said, "If my principles are to advance, it is so ordered. If they are to fall to the ground, it is so ordered. What can the Kung-pih, Leaou, do, where such ordering is concerned?"

XXXIX. 1. The Master said, "Some men of worth retire from the world.

2. "Some retire from particular countries. 3. "Some retire because of disrespectful looks. 4. "Some retire because of contradictory language." XL. The Master said, "Those who have done this are seven men."

XLI. Tsze-loo happening to pass the night in Shihmun, the gate-keeper said to him, "Whom do you come from?" Tsze-loo said, "From Mr. K'ung." "It is he, -is it not?"-said the other, "who knows the impracticable nature of the times, and yet will be doing in them."

XLII. 1. The Master was playing, one day, on a musical stone in Wei, when a man, carrying a straw basket, passed the door of the house where Confucius was, and said, "His heart is full who so beats the musical stone."

2. A little while after, he added, "How contemptible is the one-ideaed obstinacy those sounds display! When one is taken no notice of, he has simply at once to give over his wish for public employment. Deep water must be crossed with the clothes on; shallow water may be crossed with the clothes held up.'"

3. The Master said, "How determined is he in his purpose! But this is not difficult."

XLIII. 1. Tsze-chang said, "What is meant when the SHOO says that Kaou-tsung, while observing the usual imperial mourning, was for three years without speaking?"

IV. The Master said, "When rulers love to the rules of propriety, the people respond rea e calls on them for service."

V. Tsze-loo asked what constituted the sup

The Master said, "The cultivation of himse ential carefulness." "And is this all ?" said 1 "He cultivates himself so as to give rest to oth ne reply. "And is this all?" again asked 1 The Master said, "He cultivates himself so a est to all the people. He cultivates himse give rest to all the people :-even Yaou and S still solicitous about this."

VI. Yuen Jang was squatting on his heels, ited the approach of the Master, who said to outh, not humble as befits a junior; in manh nothing worthy of being handed down; and n to old age :-this is to be a pest." With thi m on the shank with his staff.

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VII. 1. A youth of the village of K'eueh yed by Confucius to carry the messages nd his visitors. Some one asked about him, I suppose he has made great progress." The Master said, "I observe that he is fond of ng the seat of a full-grown man; I observe lks shoulder to shoulder with his elders. H ne who is seeking to make progress in learn ishes quickly to become a man."

CHAPTER 1. 1. The duke Ling of We cius about tactics. Confucius replied, all about sacrificial vessels, but I have itary matters." On this, he took his next day.

2. When he was in Ch'in, their provi hausted, and his followers became so ill unable to rise.

3. Tsze-loo, with evident dissatisfacti the superior man likewise to endure The Master said, "The superior man ma to endure want, but the mean man, whe gives way to unbridled license."

II. 1. The Master said, "Tsze, you t that I am one who learns many things a in memory?"

2. Tsze-kung replied, "Yes,-but perha 3. "No," was the answer; "I seek & vading."

III. The Master said, "Yew, those w are few."

IV. The Master said, "May not Shu as having governed efficiently without ex did he do? He did nothing but gravely occupy his imperial seat."

V. 1. Tsze-chang asked how a man himself, so as to be everywhere apprecia 2. The Master said, "Let his words truthful, and his actions honorable and conduct may be practiced among the ru