6.19The Master said, “Man’s very life is honesty, in that without it he will be lucky indeed if he escapes with his life.”
6.15 The Master said, “Meng Zhifan is no boaster. When his people were routed he was the last to flee; but when they neared the city-gate, he whipped up his horses, saying, ‘It was not courage that kept me behind. My horses were slow.’”
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.
5.23 The Master said, “Boyi (Bo Yi) and Shuqi (Shu Qi) never bore old ills in mind and had but the faintest feelings of rancour.”
5.8 Meng Wu asked whether Zilu was benevolent. The Master said, “I do not know.”
4.5 Wealth and rank are what every man desires; but if they can only be retained to the detriment of the Way he professes, he must relinquish them.