Confucian Analects Book XV Part 3 (孔夫子論語:衛靈公第十五 第三部份)

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

The Master said, A gentleman is firm, not quarrelsome; a friend, not a partisan.

衛靈公第十五

BOOK XV

21. 子曰：「君子矜而不爭，群而不黨。」

The Master said, A gentleman is firm, not quarrelsome; a friend, not a partisan.

22. 子曰：「君子不以言舉人，不以人廢言。」

The Master said, A gentleman does not raise a man for his words, nor spurn the speech for the man.

23. 子貢問曰：「有一言而可以終身行之者乎？」子曰：「其怒乎！己所不欲，勿施於 人。」

Tzu-kung said, Is there one word by which we may walk till life ends?
The Master said, Fellow-feeling, perhaps. Do not do unto others what thou wouldst not have done to thee.

24. 子曰：「吾之於人也，誰毀誰譽？如有所譽者，其有所試矣。斯民也，三代之所以直 道而行也。」

The Master said, Of the men that I meet, whom do I cry down, whom do I overpraise? Or, if I overpraise them, it is after testing them. It was owing to this people that the three lines of kings went the straight way.

25. 子曰：「吾猶及史之闕文也。有馬者，借人乘之，今亡已夫！」

The Master said, I have still known historians that would leave a gap in their text, and men that would lend a horse to another to ride. Now it is so no more.

26. 子曰：「巧言亂德，小不忍則亂大謀。」

The Master said, Cunning words confound the mind; petty impatience confounds great projects.

27. 子曰：「眾惡之，必察焉；眾好之，必察焉。」

The Master said, The hatred of the many must be looked into; the love of the many must be looked into.

28. 子曰：「人能弘道，非道弘人。」

The Master said, The man can exalt the Way: it is not the Way that exalts the man.

29. 子曰：「過而不改，是謂過矣！」

The Master said, The fault is to cleave to a fault.

30. 子曰：「吾嘗終日不食，終夜不寢，以思。無益，不如學也。」

The Master said, I have spent whole days without food and whole nights without sleep, thinking, and gained nothing by it. Learning is better.