Analects 14.8
The Analects (論語), BOOK XIV. HSIEN WAN 憲問第十四
子曰、愛之、能勿勞乎、忠焉、能勿誨乎。
The Master said, "Can there be love which does not lead to strictness with its object? Can there be loyalty which does not lead to the instruction of its object?"
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
- 愛àito love, to like, to be fond of; love, a
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 能néngcan, may; capable, full of energy
- 勿wùmust not, do not; without, never
- 勞láoto labor, to toil; to do manual work
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 忠zhōngloyalty, devotion, fidelity
- 焉yānwhy? where? how?; strange; thereupon, th
- 誨huìto teach, to instruct; to encourage, to
Passages with shared wording
- Art of War 11.22
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
- Mencius 6A.10
- Zhuangzi The Evidence of Virtue Complete
- Analects 12.22
- Mencius 4A.4
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