Analects 10.12
The Analects (論語), BOOK X. HEANG TANG 鄉黨第十
廄焚、子退朝、曰、傷人乎、不問馬。
The stable being burned down, when he was at court, on his return he said, "Has any man been hurt?" He did not ask about the horses.
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 廄jiùstable; barnyard
- 焚fénto burn
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 退tuìto retreat, to step back, to withdraw
- 朝cháoto face; direct, facing; dynasty; mornin
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 傷shāngto injure, to harm; wound, injury; to fa
- 人rénman, person; people
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 問wènto ask about, to inquire after
- 馬mǎhorse; surname
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 13.14
- Analects 19.23
- Analects 7.30
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 60
- Mencius 2A.7
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
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