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Analects (Legge) · Book XII

Analects (Legge) · Book XII

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1 Fan Ch’ih rambling with the Master under the trees about the rain altars, said, ‘I venture to ask how to exalt virtue, to correct cherished evil, and to discover delusions.’

2 The Master said, ‘Truly a good question!

3 ‘If doing what is to be done be made the first business, and success a secondary consideration;— is not this the way to exalt virtue? To assail one’s own wickedness and not assail that of others;— is not this the way to correct cherished evil? For a morning’s anger to disregard one’s own life, and involve that of his parents;— is not this a case of delusion?’