rouses us, we stand upon courtesy, music is
our crown.

9. The Master said, The people may be made to follow, we cannot make
them understand.

10. The Master said, Love of daring and hatred of poverty lead to
crime; a man without love, if he is sorely harassed, turns to crime.

11. The Master said, All the comely gifts of the Duke of Chou,[77]
coupled with pride and meanness, would not be worth a glance.

[Footnote 75: For sacrifice.]

[Footnote 76: Probably Yen Yuean.]

[Footnote 77: See Book VII, Sec. 5.]

12. The Master said, A man to whom three years of learning have borne
no fruit would be hard to find.

13. The Master said, A man of simple faith, who loves learning, who
guards and betters his way unto death, will not enter a tottering
kingdom, nor stay in a lawless land. When all below heaven follows the
Way, he is seen; when it loses the Way, he is unseen. While his land
keeps the Way, he is ashamed to be poor and lowly; but when his land
has lost the Way, wealth and honours shame him.

14. The Master said, When out of place, discuss not policy.

15. The Master said, In the first days of the music-master Chih how
the hubbub[78] of the Kuan-chue rose sea beyond sea! How it filled the
ear!

16. The Master said, Of men that are zealous, but not straight; dull,
but not simple; helpless, but not truthful, I will know nothing.

17. The Master said, Learn as though the time were short, like one
that fears to lose.

18. The Master said, How wonderful were Shun[2] and Yue[2]! To have all
below heaven was nothing to them!

19. The Master said, How great a lord was Yao[79]! Wonderful! Heaven
alone is great; Yao alone was patterned on it. Vast, boundless! Men's
words failed them. The wonder of the work done by him! The flame of
his art and precepts!

[Footnote 78: The last part of the music, when all the instruments
were played together.]

[Footnote 79: See Introduction.]

20. Shun had five ministers, and there was order below heaven.

King Wu[80] said, I have ten uncommon ministers.

Confucius said, 'The dearth of talent,' is not that the truth? When
Yue[81] followed T'ang[82] the times were rich in talent; yet there
were but nine men in all, and one woman. In greatness of soul we may
say that Chou[83] was highest: he had two-thirds of all below heaven
and bent it to the service of Yin.

21. The Master said, I see no flaw in Yue. He ate and drank little, yet
he was lavish in piety to the ghosts a