Analects 13.29
The Analects (論語), BOOK XIII. TSZE-LU 子路第十三
子曰、善人教民七年、亦可以即戎矣。
The Master said, "Let a good man teach the people seven years, and they may then likewise be employed in war."
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
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 善shàngood, virtuous, charitable, kind
- 人rénman, person; people
- 教jiàoschool, education
- 民míncitizens, subjects; a nation's people
- 七qīseven
- 年niányear; anniversary; a person's age
- 亦yìalso, too; likewise
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
- 即jípromptly, quickly, immediately
- 戎róngarms, armaments; military affairs
- 矣yǐparticle of completed action
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 13.11
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
- Hexagram 43
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Tsê Yang
- Analects 13.30
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