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Analects (Legge) · Book XIV

Analects (Legge) · Book XIV

Book XIV 20

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1 The Master was speaking about the unprincipled course of the duke Ling of Wei, when Ch’i K’ang said, ‘Since he is of such a character, how is it he does not lose his State?’

2 Confucius said, ‘The Chung-shu Yu has the superintendence of his guests and of strangers; the litanist, T’o, has the management of his ancestral temple; and Wang-sun Chia has the direction of the army and forces:— with such officers as these, how should he lose his State?’