he speech for the man.

23. Tzu-kung said, Is there one word by which we may walk till life
ends?

The Master said, Fellow-feeling, perhaps. Do not do unto others what
thou wouldst not have done to thee.

24. The Master said, Of the men that I meet, whom do I cry down, whom
do I overpraise? Or, if I overpraise them, it is after testing them.
It was owing to this people that the three lines of kings went the
straight way.

25. The Master said, I have still known historians that would leave a
gap in their text, and men that would lend a horse to another to ride.
Now it is so no more.

26. The Master said, Cunning words confound the mind; petty impatience
confounds great projects.

27. The Master said, The hatred of the many must be looked into; the
love of the many must be looked into.

28. The Master said, The man can exalt the Way: it is not the Way that
exalts the man.

29. The Master said, The fault is to cleave to a fault.

30. The Master said, I have spent whole days without food and whole
nights without sleep, thinking, and gained nothing by it. Learning is
better.

31. The Master said, A gentleman thinks of the Way; he does not think
of food. Sow, and famine may follow; learn, and pay may come; but a
gentleman grieves for the Way; to be poor does not grieve him.

32. The Master said, What wisdom has got will be lost again, unless
love hold it fast. Wisdom to get and love to hold fast, without
dignity of bearing, will not be honoured among men. Wisdom to get,
love to hold fast and dignity of bearing, without courteous ways are
not enough.

33. The Master said, A gentleman has no small knowledge, but he can
carry out big things: the small man can carry out nothing big, but he
may be knowing in small things.

34. The Master said, Love is more to the people than fire and water. I
have seen men come to their death by fire and water: I have seen no
man that love brought to his death.

35. The Master said, When love is at stake yield not to an army.

36. The Master said, A gentleman is consistent, not changeless.

37. The Master said, A servant of the king honours his work, and puts
food after it.

38. The Master said, Learning knows no rank.

39. The Master said, Mingle not in projects with a man whose way is
not thine.

40. The Master said, The whole end of speech is to be understood.

41. When he saw the music-master Mien, the Master said, as they came
to the steps, Here are the steps. On c