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7.4 In his leisure hours the Master’s manner was very free-and-easy, and his expression alert and cheerful.
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7.3 Confucius said: “Failure to cultivate virtue, neglect of deep learning, inability to pursue righteousness when recognized, and refusal to correct errors — these are my deepest concerns.”
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7.2 The Master said, “I have listened in silence and noted what was said, I have never grown tired of learning nor wearied of teaching others what I have learnt. These at least are merits which I can confidently claim.”
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Analects 7.1 The Master said, “I have transmitted what was taught to me without making up anything of my own. I have been faithful to and loved the Ancients. In these respects, I make bold to think, not even our old Peng can have excelled me.”
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6.30 Zigong said, “If a ruler not only conferred wide benefits upon the common people, but also compassed the salvation of the whole State, what would you say of him? Surely, you would call him benevolent?”
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6.29The Master said, “How transcendent is the moral power of the Middle Use! That it is but rarely found among the common people is a fact long admitted.”
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6.28When the Master went to see Nanzi, Zilu was not pleased. Whereupon the Master made a solemn declaration concerning his visit, saying, “Whatsoever I have done amiss, may Heaven avert it, may Heaven avert it!”
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6.27The Master said, “A gentleman who is widely versed in letters and at the same time knows how to submit his learning to the restraints of ritual is not likely, I think, to go far wrong.”
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6.26Zai Yu asked saying, “I take it a benevolent man, even if he were told that another benevolent man were at the bottom of a well, would go to join him?”