CONFUCIAN ANALECTS

Yen Yuan and Chi Lu being by his side, the Master said to them, "Come, let each of you tell his wishes." Tsze-lu said, "I should like, having chariots and horses, and light fur clothes, to share them with my friends, and though they should spoil them, I would not be displeased." Yen Yuan said, "I should like not to boast of my excellence, nor to make a display of my meritorious deeds." Tsze-lu then said, "I should like, sir, to hear your wishes." The Master said, "They are, in regard to the aged, to give them rest; in regard to friends, to show them sincerity; in regard to the young, to treat them tenderly." The Master said, "It is all over. I have not yet seen one who could perceive his faults, and inwardly accuse himself." The Master said, "In a hamlet of ten families, there may be found one honorable and sincere as I am, but not so fond of learning." 6 The Master said, "There is Yung!-He might occupy the place of a prince." Chung-kung asked about Tsze-sang Po-tsze. The Master said, "He may pass. He does not mind small matters." Chung-kung said, "If a man cherish in himself a reverential feeling of the necessity of attention to business, though he may be easy in small matters in his government of the people, that may be allowed. But if he cherish in himself that easy feeling, and also carry it out in his practice, is not such an easymode of procedure excessive?" The Master said, "Yung's words are right."