Ask the Analects, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean. Other Confucian classics are here too, in Legge's English. Ask about duty, ritual, or good government. Then read the quoted passages for yourself.
4,183 passages here to read and ask.
Confucius translated by James Legge [1893] 1 The Master "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? "Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? "Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?" The philosopher Yu said, "They are few who, being filial and fraternal, are fond of offending against their superiors. ...
THE SHÛ KING. PART I. THE BOOK OF THANG. THE CANON OF YÂO. SHÛ KING, the name of the whole work, has been sufficiently explained in the Introduction. The name of this Part, the first of the five into which the whole is divided, is the Book of Thang, Thang being taken as the dynastic designation of Yâo, who before his elevation to the throne had been marquis of the small state of Thang, the name of which is supposed ...