Analects 15.11
The Analects (論語), BOOK XV. WEI LING KUNG 衞靈公第十五
子曰、人無遠慮、必有近憂。
The Master said, "If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand."
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
- 人rénman, person; people
- 無wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 遠yuǎndistant, remote, far; profound
- 慮lǜanxious, concerned, worried
- 必bìsurely, certainly; must; will
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 近jìnto approach; near, close; intimate
- 憂yōusad, grieving; melancholy, grief
Passages with shared wording
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