e.

The Master said, A workman bent on good work must first sharpen his
tools. In the land that is thy home, serve those that are worthy among
the great and make friends with loving knights.

10. Yen Yuean asked how to rule a kingdom.

The Master said, Follow the Hsia seasons, drive in the chariot of Yin,
wear the head-dress of Chou, take for music the Shao and its dance.
Banish the strains of Cheng and flee men that are glib; for the
strains of Cheng are wanton and glib speakers are dangerous.

11. The Master said. Without thought for far off things, there shall
be trouble near at hand.

12. The Master said, All is ended! I have seen no one that loves mind
as he loves looks!

13. The Master said, Did not Tsang Wen filch his post? He knew the
worth of Liu-hsia Hui,[139] and did not stand by him.

14. The Master said, By asking much of self and little of other men
ill feeling is banished.

15. The Master said, Unless a man say, Would this do? Would that do? I
can do nothing for him.

16. The Master said, When all day long there is no talk of right, and
little wiles find favour, the company is in hard case.

17. The Master said, Right is the stuff of which a gentleman is made.
Done with courtesy, spoken with humility, rounded with truth, right
makes a gentleman.

18. The Master said, His shortcomings trouble a gentleman; to be
unknown does not trouble him.

19. The Master said, A gentleman fears that his name shall be no more
heard when life is done.

[Footnote 139: Another of these _seigneurs du temps jadis_ that is
more to us than a dim shadow, for he still lives in the pages of
Mencius, who tells us that, He was not ashamed of a foul lord, and did
not refuse a small post. On coming in he did not hide his worth, but
held his own way. Neglected and idle, he did not grumble; straitened
and poor, he did not mope. When brought together with country folk he
was quite at his ease and could not bear to leave them. Thou art thou,
he said, and I am I: standing beside me with thy coat off, or thy body
naked, how canst thou defile me? (Book X, chapter 1). He stopped if a
hand was raised to stop him, for he did not care whether he went or no
(Book III, chapter 9).]

20. The Master said, A gentleman asks of himself, the small man asks
of others.

21. The Master said, A gentleman is firm, not quarrelsome; a friend,
not a partisan.

22. The Master said, A gentleman does not raise a man for his words,
nor spurn t