6.8 Ji Kang asked whether Zilu was the right sort of person to put into office.
5.15 Zigong asked saying, “Why was Kong Wen called Wen(‘The Cultured’)?”
5.12 Zigong said, “What I do not want others to do to me, I have no desire to do to others.” The Master said, “Oh Ci! You have not quite got to that point yet.”
5.9 The Master in discussing Zigong said to him, “Which do you yourself think is the better, you or Hui?”
Zigong asked about the true gentleman. The Master said, “He does not preach what he practises till he has practised what he preaches.”
Ziqin said to Zigong, “When our Master arrives in a fresh country he always manages to find out about its policy. Does he do this by asking questions, or do people tell him of their own accord?”