Could it be called love?

The Master said, What has this to do with love? Must it not be
holiness? Yao and Shun[63] still yearned for this. Seeking a foothold
for self, love finds a foothold for others; seeking light for itself,
it enlightens others too. To learn from the near at hand may be called
the clue to love.

[Footnote 62: The dissolute wife of Duke Ling of Wei.]

[Footnote 63: Two emperors of the golden age.]

BOOK VII

1. The Master said, A teller and not a maker, one that trusts and
loves the past; I might liken myself to our old P'eng.[64]

2. The Master said, To think things over in silence, to learn and be
always hungry, to teach and never weary; is any of these mine?

3. The Master said, Not making the most of my mind, want of
thoroughness in learning, failure to do the right when told it, lack
of strength to overcome faults; these are my sorrows.

4. In his free moments the Master was easy and cheerful.

5. The Master said, How deep is my decay! It is long since I saw the
Duke of Chou[65] in a dream.

6. The Master said, Keep thy will on the Way, lean on mind, rest in
love, move in art.

7. The Master said, From the man that paid in dried meat upwards, I
have withheld teaching from no one.

8. The Master said, Only to those fumbling do I open, only for those
stammering do I find the word.

[Footnote 64: We should be glad to know more of old P'eng, but nothing
is known of him.]

[Footnote 65: Died 1105 B.C. He was the younger brother of King Wu,
the founder of the Chou dynasty, as great in peace as the King in war.
He was so bent on carrying out the old principles of government that
'if anything did not tally with them, he looked up and thought, till
day passed into night, and if by luck he found the answer he sat and
waited for the dawn' (Mencius, Book VIII, chapter 20).]

If I lift one corner and the other three are left unturned, I say no
more.

9. When eating beside a mourner the Master never ate his fill. On days
when he had been wailing, he did not sing.

10. The Master said to Yen Yuean, To go forward when in office and lie
quiet when not; only I and thou can do that.

Tzu-lu said, If ye had to lead three armies, Sir, whom would ye have
with you?

No man, said the Master, that would face a tiger bare-fisted, or
plunge into a river and die without a qualm; but one, indeed, who,
fearing what may come, lays his plans well and carries them through.

11. The Master sai