The Master Said, 'If Some Years Were Added To My
Life, I Would Give Fifty To The Study Of The Yi, And Then I Might Come
To Be Without Great Faults.'
CHAP.
XVII The Master's frequent themes of discourse were -
the Odes, the History, and the maintenance of the Rules of
Propriety.
On all these he frequently discoursed.
CHAP. XVIII. 1. The Duke of Sheh asked Tsze-lu about
Confucius, and Tsze-lu did not answer him.
2. The Master said, 'Why did you not say to him, - He is
simply a man, who in his eager pursuit (of knowledge) forgets his
food, who in the joy of its attainment forgets his sorrows, and who
does not perceive that old age is coming on?'
CHAP. XIX. The Master said, 'I am not one who was born in
the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and
earnest in seeking it there.'
CHAP. XX. The subjects on which the Master did not talk,
were - extraordinary things, feats of strength, disorder, and
spiritual beings.
CHAP. XXI. The Master said, 'When I walk along with two
others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good
qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.'
CHAP. XXII. The Master said, 'Heaven produced the virtue
that is in me. Hwan T'ui - what can he do to me?'
CHAP. XXIII. The Master said, 'Do you think, my disciples, that
I have any concealments?
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