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5.8 Meng Wu asked whether Zilu was benevolent. The Master said, “I do not know.”
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5.7 The Master said, “The Way/Dao makes no progress. I shall get upon a raft and float out to sea. I am sure You would come with me.”
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5.6 The Master gave Qidiao Kai leave to take office, but he replied,”I have not yet sufficiently perfected myself in the virtue of good faith.” The Master was delighted.
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5.5 Someone said, “Ran Yong is benevolent, but he is a poor talker.”
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5.3 Of Zijian he said, “A gentleman indeed is such a one as he! If the land of Lu were indeed without gentlemen, how could he have learnt this?”
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5.1, 5.2 The Master said of Gongye Chang, “Though he has suffered imprisonment, he is not an unfit person to choose as a husband; for it was not through any fault of his own.” He married him to his daughter.
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4.26 Ziyou said, “In the service of one’s prince repeated scolding can only lead to loss of favour; in friendship, it can only lead to estrangement.