Analects 5.2
The Analects (論語), BOOK V. KUNG-YE CH'ANG 公冶長第五
子謂子賤、君子哉若人、魯無君子者、斯焉取斯
The Master said of Tsze-chien, "Of superior virtue indeed is such a man! If there were not virtuous men in Lu, how could this man have acquired this character?"
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
- 謂wèito call, to say, to tell; name, title; m
- 賤jiàncheap, low, mean, worthless
- 君jūnsovereign, ruler, prince, monarch, chief
- 哉zāifinal exclamatory particle
- 若ruòif, supposing, assuming; similar
- 人rénman, person; people
- 魯lǔfoolish, stupid, rash; vulgar
- 無wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 者zhěthat which; they who; those who
- 斯sīthis, thus, such; emphatic particle; use
- 焉yānwhy? where? how?; strange; thereupon, th
- 取qǔto take, to receive, to obtain; to selec
Passages with shared wording
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