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Analects (Legge) · Book XII

Analects (Legge) · Book XII

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1 Sze-ma Niu, full of anxiety, said, ‘Other men all have their brothers, I only have not.’

2 Tsze-hsia said to him, ‘There is the following saying which I have heard:—

3 ’”Death and life have their determined appointment; riches and honours depend upon Heaven.”

4 ‘Let the superior man never fail reverentially to order his own conduct, and let him be respectful to others and observant of propriety:— then all within the four seas will be his brothers. What has the superior man to do with being distressed because he has no brothers?’