Analects 2.16
The Analects (論語), BOOK II. WEI CHANG 爲政第二
子曰、攻乎異端、斯害也已。
The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"
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
- 攻gōngto accuse; to assault; to criticize
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 異yìdifferent, strange, unusual; foreign; su
- 端duānend, extreme; head; beginning
- 斯sīthis, thus, such; emphatic particle; use
- 害hàito injure, to harm; to destroy, to kill
- 也yěalso, too
- 已yǐalready; finished; to stop; then, afterw
Passages with shared wording
- Mencius 4A.1
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
- Analects 1.14
- Analects 6.28
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