CONFUCIAN ANALECTS

wrangle. He is sociable, but not a partisan." The Master said, "The superior man does not promote a man simply on account of his words, nor does he put aside good words because of the man." Tsze-kung asked, saying, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." The Master said, "In my dealings with men, whose evil do I blame, whose goodness do I praise, beyond what is proper? If I do sometimes exceed in praise, there must be ground for it in my examination of the individual. "This people supplied the ground why the three dynasties pursued the path of straightforwardness." The Master said, "Even in my early days, a historiographer would leave a blank in his text, and he who had a horse would lend him to another to ride. Now, alas! there are no such things." The Master said, "Specious words confound virtue. Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans." The Master said, "When the multitude hate a man, it is necessary to examine into the case. When the multitude like a man, it is necessary to examine into the case." The Master said, "A man can enlarge the principles which he follows; those principles do not enlarge the man." The Master said, "To have faults and not to reform them,-this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults."