Tsze-hsia

Tsze-hsia! being governor of Chu-fu, asked about government.

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Tsze-hsia said, “He, who from day to day recognizes what he has not yet, and from month to month does not forget what he has attained to, may be said indeed to love to learn.”

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Tsze-hsia said, “Mourning, having been carried to the utmost degree of grief, should stop with that.”

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Tsze-hsia said, “When a person does not transgress the boundary line in the great virtues, he may pass and repass it in the small virtues.”

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Tsze-hsia said, “There are learning extensively, and having a firm and sincere aim; inquiring with earnestness, and reflecting with self-application: - virtue is in such a course.”

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The disciples of Tsze-hsia asked Tsze-chang about the principles that should characterize mutual intercourse.

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Tsze-hsia said, “My friend Chang can do things which are hard to be done, but yet he is not perfectly virtuous.”

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The Master said to Tsze-hsia, “Do you be a scholar after the style of the superior man, and not after that of the mean man.”

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Tsze-hsia said, “The mean man is sure to gloss his faults.”

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But there is among them the name of Tsze-hsia, who lived to the age of about a hundred.

The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856