Analects

Chapter 6
6.1
Zi said: "Yong can also send south."

6.2
Zhong Gong asked his son Sang Bozi, and the son said, "Yes, Jane."

Zhong Gong said: "Isn't it okay to live in respect and practice simplicity in order to treat the people? Living in simplicity and practicing simplicity, is there no such thing as great simplicity?"

Confucius said: "Yong's words are true."

6.3
Duke Ai asked, "Which of the disciples is eager to learn?"

Confucius replied: "Those who have a face are eager to learn, don't irritate, and don't have a second pass. Unfortunately, they died short-lived, and now they are dead, and there is no good scholar."

6.4
Zihua was envoy to Qi, and Ranzi asked millet for his mother.

Confucius said: "With the cauldron." Please benefit.Said: "Yu Zhiyu." Ran Zi and Su Wubing.The Master said: "The red one is suitable for riding a fat horse, and the clothes are light fur. I have heard that a gentleman is anxious to get rich."

6.5
The original thought was slaughtered, and nine hundred millet was given to him, and he resigned.

The Master said: "No! How about a township party in your neighborhood!"

6.6
The son called Zhong Gong and said: "The son of the plow ox, the horns, should not be used even if he wants to, and the mountains and rivers will be abandoned?"

6.7
The Master said: "Hui Ye, his heart does not violate benevolence for three months; the rest is just as long as the sun and the moon are at their peak."

6.8
Ji Kangzi asked: "Can Zhong You be entrusted with politics?"

The Master said: "From the fruit to the fruit, what is the use of politics?"

Said: "Can you also give me a job in politics?"

Said: "The bestowal is also great, what is the use in politics?"

Said: "If you ask for it, can you also be in politics?"

Said: "Seeking art, what's the use of politics?"

6.9
The Ji family made Min Ziqian the minister of Fei.

Min Ziqian said: "Be good at saying goodbye to me. If there is someone who will return me, then I will be in Wenshang."

6.10
Bo Niu was sick, the son asked him, and held his hand, saying:

"Death, I will die! Like people, there are also diseases! Like people, there are diseases!"

6.11
The Master said: "It's good! Come back. A sack of food, a ladle to drink, in a back alley. People can't bear their worries, and they don't change their joy when they go back. Good! Come back."

6.12
Ran Qiu said: "If you don't talk about the way of the son, your strength will be insufficient."

The Master said: "Those who are not strong enough, give up in the middle way. Today's women's paintings."

6.13
Zi said to Zixia: "Women are Confucians for gentlemen, but Confucianism for petty men."

6.14
Ziyou is the governor of Wucheng.

The Master said: "How can a woman win a man's ear?"

Said: "There are those who destroy the Ming in Tantai, and they can't go by the way. It's not official business, and it's not like it's in Yan's room."

6.15
The Master said: "Mengzhi's rebellion did not attack. He rushed to the palace, entered the gate, rode his horse, and said: 'If you dare to succeed, the horse will not enter.'"

6.16
The Master said: "There is no such thing as a sycophant, but there is the beauty of the Song Dynasty. It is hard to escape the present world!"

6.17
The Master said: "Who can go out of the house? Why don't you do it?"

6.18
The Master said: "Quality is better than writing, and then you are wild, and writing is better than quality, then you are history. When you are gentle, then you are a gentleman."

6.19
The Master said: "Man's life is straightforward, and the life of Wang is also spared."

6.20
The Master said: "The one who knows is not as good as the one who likes it, and the one who likes it is not as good as one who enjoys it."

6.21
The Master said: "Above the average person, you can speak well; below the middleman, you can't speak well."

6.22
Fan Chi asked.

Confucius said: "The righteousness of serving the people is to respect ghosts and gods and keep them at a distance. This can be said to be known." Ask about benevolence.

Said: "The benevolent first makes it difficult and then obtains it. It can be called benevolence."

6.23
The Master said: "Those who know enjoy water, those who are benevolent enjoy mountains; those who know move, those who are benevolent are still;

6.24
The Master said: "When Qi changes, it becomes Lu; when Lu changes, it becomes Dao."

6.25
The Master said: "Gog is not gou, gou is! Gou is!"

6.26
Zai Wo asked: "The benevolent, even if you tell him: 'There is benevolence in the well.' Do you follow it?"

The Master said: "Why is this so? A gentleman can die, but he cannot be trapped; he can be deceived, but he cannot be ignored."

6.27
The Master said: "A gentleman is erudite in literature, and if he makes an appointment with courtesy, he can also help his husband."

6.28
When Zi saw Nan Zi, Zi Lu didn't say anything.

The Master pointed at him and said: "For those who are denied, the sky will hate it! The sky will hate it!"

6.29
The Master said: "The doctrine of the mean is virtue, and it is the ultimate! The people have been rare for a long time."

6.30
Zi Gong said: "If there is something that can benefit the people, how about it? Can it be called benevolence?"

The Master said: "Whatever is in benevolence must also be holy! Yao and Shun are both sick! A benevolent man establishes others if he wants to stand up for himself, and reaches others if he wants to achieve himself. It can be called the way of benevolence."

(End of this chapter)