Analects

Chapter 4
4.1
The Master said: "Benevolence is beautiful, if you choose not to be benevolent, how will you know?"

4.2
The Master said: "Those who are not benevolent should not be able to keep promises for a long time, and they cannot be happy with their strengths. The benevolent are safe with benevolence, and those who know are benevolent."

4.3
The Master said: "Only the benevolent can be good and evil."

4.4
The Master said: "If you aim at benevolence, there is no evil."

4.5
The Master said: "Wealth and honor are what people desire; if you don't get them according to the way, you don't want to live there. Poverty and lowliness are what people hate; if you don't get them according to the way, you don't want to go. The gentleman goes." Benevolence, is it evil to become famous? A gentleman will never end up violating benevolence.

4.6
The Master said: "I have never seen a person who loves benevolence and hates someone who is not benevolent. Those who love benevolence have no respect for them; those who hate inhumaneness are called benevolence, and they are not allowed to be added to their bodies. Will they be able to use their power for benevolence one day? ? I haven’t seen anyone who lacks strength. It’s covered, but I haven’t seen it.”

4.7
The Master said: "A person's faults belong to his own party. After observing the faults, he knows benevolence."

4.8
The Master said: "If you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening."

4.9
The Master said: "Scholars who aspire to the Tao, but are ashamed of those who wear bad clothes and bad food, are not enough to discuss."

4.10
The Master said: "A gentleman is in the world, there is nothing suitable, there is nothing, and righteousness is comparable."

4.11
The Master said, "The gentleman is virtuous, and the villain is cherishing the soil; the gentleman is cherishing punishment, and the villain is cherishing kindness."

4.12
The Master said: "According to the interests, there are many complaints."

4.13
The Master said: "Is it possible to make a country with courtesy? Why not! You can't make a country with courtesy, how about courtesy!"

4.14
The Master said: "Don't worry about having no position, worry about standing; don't worry about not knowing yourself, seek to know it."

4.15
The Master said: "Shenhu! My way is consistent."

Zeng Zi said: "Wei." Zi went out.

The doorman asked, "What do you mean?"

Zeng Zi said: "The way of a master is loyalty and forgiveness!"

4.16
The Master said: "A gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness, and a villain is a metaphor for profit."

4.17
The Master said: "When you see a virtuous person, you think about it; when you see an unvirtuous person, you reflect on yourself."

4.18
The Master said: "I have been admonished by my parents a few times. If I do not follow my will, I respect and do not disobey. I work hard but do not complain."

4.19
The Master said, "My parents are here, so if you don't travel far, you must travel well."

4.20
The Master said: "If you have not changed your father's way for three years, you can be called filial piety."

4.21
The Master said: "You must not know the age of your parents; one is for joy and the other for fear."

4.22
The Master said: "The ancients can't say it, and they are ashamed of not being able to catch it."

4.23
The Master said: "Those who lose the promise are rare!"

4.24
Confucius said: "A gentleman wants to be slow in speech, but quick in action."

4.25
Confucius said: "Virtue is not alone, there must be neighbors."

4.26
Ziyou said: "It is humiliating to serve the number of rulers; it is sparse to have the number of friends."

(End of this chapter)