by courteous
yielding? If we cannot sway a kingdom by courteous yielding, what is
our courtesy worth?

14. The Master said, Care not for want of place; care for thy
readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be
worthy of note.

15. The Master said, One line, Shen,[37] runs through my Way.

[Footnote 37: The disciple Tseng-tzu.]

Yes, said Tseng-tzu.

After the Master had left, the disciples asked what was meant.

Tseng-tzu said, The Master's Way is no more than faithfulness and
fellow-feeling.

16. The Master said, The gentleman is learned in right; the small man
is learned in gain.

17. The Master said, At sight of worth, think to grow like it; at
sight of baseness, search thyself within.

18. The Master said, A father or a mother may be gently chidden. If
thou seest they have no will to follow thee, be the more lowly, but do
not give way; nor murmur at the trouble they give thee.

19. The Master said, Whilst thy father and mother are living, do not
wander afar. If thou must travel, hold a set course.

20. The Master said, He that changes nothing in his father's ways for
three years may be called pious.

21. The Master said, A father and mother's years must be borne in
mind; with gladness on the one hand and fear on the other.

22. The Master said, The men of old were loth to speak, for not to
live up to their words would have shamed them.

23. The Master said, We shall seldom get lost if we hold to main
lines.

24. The Master said, A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick
to do.

25. The Master said, A great soul is never friendless: he has always
neighbours.

26. Tzu-yu said, Nagging at kings brings disgrace, nagging at friends
estrangement.

BOOK V

1. Of Kung-yeh Ch'ang the Master said, A girl might be wedded to him.
Though he has been in fetters that was not his crime.

He gave him his daughter to wed.

Of Nan Jung the Master said, When the land keeps the Way he will not
be neglected; and if the land loses the Way he will escape punishment
and death.

He gave him his brother's daughter to wed.

2. Of Tzu-chien[38] the Master said, What a gentleman he is! But if
there were no gentlemen in Lu, where could he have picked it up?

3. Tzu-kung asked, And what of me?

Thou art a vessel, said the Master.

What kind of vessel?

A rich temple vessel.

4. One said, Yung[39] has love, but he is not glib.

[Footnote 38: A disciple born in Lu.]

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