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Analects (Legge) · Book IX

Analects (Legge) · Book IX

Book IX 26

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1 The Master said, ‘Dressed himself in a tattered robe quilted with hemp, yet standing by the side of men dressed in furs, and not ashamed;— ah! it is Yu who is equal to this!

2 ’”He dislikes none, he covets nothing;— what can he do but what is good!”’

3 Tsze-lu kept continually repeating these words of the ode, when the Master said, ‘Those things are by no means sufficient to constitute (perfect) excellence.’