Confucian Analects Book XV Part 2 (孔夫子論語:衛靈公第十五 第二部份)

Author: Confucius (孔夫子); translated by James Legge

The Master said, Right is the stuff of which a gentleman is made. Done with courtesy, spoken with humility, rounded with truth, right makes a gentleman.

衛靈公第十五

BOOK XV

11. 子曰：「人無遠慮，必有近憂。」

The Master said. Without thought for far off things, there shall be trouble near at hand.

12. 子曰：「已矣乎！吾未見好德如好色者也！」

The Master said, All is ended! I have seen no one that loves mind as he loves looks!

13. 子曰：「臧文仲，其竊位者與？知柳下惠之賢而不與立也。」

The Master said, Did not Tsang Wen filch his post? He knew the worth of Liu-hsia Hui, and did not stand by him.

14. 子曰：「躬自厚，而薄責於人，則遠怨矣！」

The Master said, By asking much of self and little of other men ill feeling is banished.

15. 子曰：「不曰：『如之何，如之何』者，吾末如之何也已矣？」

The Master said, Unless a man say, Would this do? Would that do? I can do nothing for him.

16. 子曰：「群居終日，言不及義，好行小慧，難矣哉！」

The Master said, When all day long there is no talk of right, and little wiles find favour, the company is in hard case.

17. 子曰：「君子義以為質，禮以行之，孫以出之，信以成之，君子哉！」

The Master said, Right is the stuff of which a gentleman is made. Done with courtesy, spoken with humility, rounded with truth, right makes a gentleman.

18. 子曰：「君子病無能焉，不病人之不己知也。」

The Master said, His shortcomings trouble a gentleman; to be unknown does not trouble him.

19. 子曰：「君子疾沒世而名不稱焉。」

The Master said, A gentleman fears that his name shall be no more heard when life is done.

20. 子曰：「君子求諸己，小人求諸人。」

The Master said, A gentleman asks of himself, the small man asks of others.