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The Analects – Chapter 195 (8.9). Confucius on governance strategy and educational pragmatism
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8.9The Master said, “The common people can be made to follow it; they cannot be made to understand it.”
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The Analects – Chapter 194 (8.8). The three stages of cultivation: Confucius on poetry, ritual, and music
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8.8The Master said,”Let a man be first incited by the Songs, then given a firm footing by the study of ritual, and finally perfected by music.”
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The Analects – Chapter 193 (8.7). The burden of benevolence: the scholar-official’s mission
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8.7Master Zeng said, “The true Knight of the Way must perforce be both broad-shouldered and stout of heart; his burden is heavy and he has far to go. For Goodness is the burden he has taken upon himself; and must we not grant that it is a heavy one to bear? Only with death…
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The Analects – Chapter 192 (8.6). The unshaken guardian: Zengzi’s portrait of Confucian moral fortitude
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8.6Master Zeng said, “The man to whom one could with equal confidence entrust an orphan not yet fully grown or the sovereignty of a whole State, whom the advent of no emergency however great could upset – would such a one be a true gentleman? He I think would be a true gentleman indeed.”