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6.12 Ran Qiu said,”It is not that your Way does not commend itself to me, but that it demands powers I do not possess.”
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6.11 The Master said, “Incomparable indeed was Hui! A handful of rice to eat, a gourdful of water to drink, living in a mean street – others would have found it unendurably depressing, but to Hui’s cheerfulness it made no difference at all. Incomparable indeed was Hui!”
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6.10 When Ran Geng was ill, the Master went to enquire after him, and grasping his hand through the window said, “It is all over with him! Heaven has so ordained it — but that such a man should have such an illness! That such a man should have such an illness!”
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6.9 The Ji Family wanted to make Min Ziqian governor of Mi.
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6.8 Ji Kang asked whether Zilu was the right sort of person to put into office.
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6.7 The Master said, “Hui is capable of occupying his whole mind for three months on end with no thought but that of benevolence. The others can do so, some for a day, some even for a month; but that is all.”
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6.5 When Yuan Si was made a governor, he was given an allowance of nine hundred measures of grain, but declined it. The Master said, “Surely you could find people who would be glad of it among your neighbours or in your village?”
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6.4 When Gongxi Hua was sent on a mission to Qi State, Master Ran asked that Hua’s mother might be granted an allowance of grain.