Analects 12.14
The Analects (論語), BOOK XII. YEN YUAN 顏淵第十二
子張問政。子曰、居之無倦、行之以忠。
Tsze-chang asked about government. The Master said, "The art of governing is to keep its affairs before the mind without weariness, and to practise them with undeviating consistency."
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 張zhāngto display; to expand, to open; to stret
- 問wènto ask about, to inquire after
- 政zhènggovernment, politics
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 居jūto live, to reside; to dwell; to sit
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 無wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 倦juàntired, weary
- 行xíngto go, to walk, to move; professional
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
- 忠zhōngloyalty, devotion, fidelity
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 13.1
- Mencius 6B.6
- Analects 3.19
- Zhuangzi On Swords
- Zhuangzi The Old Fisherman
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 20
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