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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?”
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6.25 The Master said, “A horn-gourd that is neither horn nor gourd! A pretty horn-gourd indeed, a pretty horn-gourd indeed.”
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6.23 The Master said, “The wise man delights in water, the benevolent man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the benevolent stay still. The wise are happy; but the benevolent, secure.”