[1] THE MASTER said: !°Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he gotwisdom?!
[2] The Master said: !°Loveless men cannot bear need long, they cannot bear fortune long. Lovinghearts find peace in love; clever heads find profit in it.!
[3] The Master said: !°Love can alone love others, or hate others.
[4] The Master said: !°A heart set on love will do no wrong.
[5] The Master said: !°Wealth and honours are what men desire; but abide not in them by help ofwrong. Lowliness and want are hated of men; but forsake them not by help of wrong. !°Shorn of love, is a gentleman worthy the name? Not for one moment may a gentleman sin againstlove; not in flurry and haste, nor yet in utter overthrow.!
[6] The Master said: !°A friend to love, a foe to evil, I have yet to meet. A friend to love will setnothing higher. In love!ˉs service, a foe to evil will let no evil touch him. Were a man to give himselfto love, but for one day, I have seen no one whose strength would fail him. Such men there may be, but I have not seen one.!
[7] The Master said: !°A man and his faults are of a piece. By watching his faults we learn whetherlove be his.!
[8] The Master said: !°To learn the truth at daybreak and die at eve were enough.
[9] The Master said: !°A scholar in search of truth who is ashamed of poor clothes and poor food it isidle talking to.!
10] The Master said: !°A gentleman has no likes and no dislikes below heaven. He follows right.
11] The Master said: !°Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; thevulgar trust in favour.!
12] The Master said: !°The chase of gain is rich in hate.
13] The Master said: !°What is it to sway a kingdom by courteous yielding? Who cannot by courteousyielding sway a kingdom, what can he know of courtesy?!
14] The Master said: !°Be not concerned at want of place; be concerned that thou stand thyself. Sorrownot at being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.!
15] The Master said: !°One thread, Shen,1 runs through all my teaching.! !°Yes,!± said Tseng-tz After the Master had left, the disciples asked what was meant. Tseng-tzu said: !°The Master!ˉs teaching all hangs on faithfulness and fellow-feeling
16] The Master said: !°A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
[17] The Master said: !°At sight of worth, think to grow like it. When evil meets thee, search thine ownheart.!
[18] The Master said: !°A father or mother may be gently chidden. If they will not bend, be the morelowly, but persevere; nor murmur if trouble follow.!
[19] The Master said: !°Whilst thy father and mother live, do not wander afar. If thou must travel, hold aset course.!
[20] The Master said: !°If for three years a son do not forsake his father!ˉs ways, he may be calledutiful.!
[21] The Master said: !°A father!ˉs and a mother!ˉs age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hanfear on the other.!
[22] The Master said: !°Men of old were loth to speak; lest a word that they could not make good shouldshame them.!
[23] The Master said: !°Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
[24] The Master said: !°A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.
[25] The Master said: !°Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbours.
[26] Tzu-yu said: !°Preaching to princes brings disgrace, nagging at friends estrangement.
Note 1. The disciple Tseng-tzu.
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