Analects 17.26
The Analects (論語), BOOK XVII. YANG HO 陽貨第十七
子曰、年四十而見惡焉、其終也已。
The Master said, "When a man at forty is the object of dislike, he will always continue what he is."
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
- 年niányear; anniversary; a person's age
- 四sìfour
- 十shíten, tenth; complete; perfect
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 見jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 惡èbad, evil, wicked; to hate, to loathe; f
- 焉yānwhy? where? how?; strange; thereupon, th
- 其qíhis, her, its, their; that
- 終zhōngend; finally, in the end
- 也yěalso, too
- 已yǐalready; finished; to stop; then, afterw
Passages with shared wording
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Hexagram 38
- Analects 12.9
- Mencius 5A.4
- Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
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