Analects 5.26
The Analects (論語), BOOK V. KUNG-YE CH'ANG 公冶長第五
子曰、已矣乎、吾未見能見其過、而內自訟者也。
The Master said, "It is all over! I have not yet seen one who could perceive his faults, and inwardly accuse himself."
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
- 已yǐalready; finished; to stop; then, afterw
- 矣yǐparticle of completed action
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 吾wúI, my, our; to resist, to impede
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 見jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 能néngcan, may; capable, full of energy
- 其qíhis, her, its, their; that
- 過guòpass; to go across, to pass through
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 內nèiinside
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 訟sòngto accuse, to argue; to dispute, to liti
- 者zhěthat which; they who; those who
- 也yěalso, too
Passages with shared wording
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Analects 4.17
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Analects 15.12
- Zhuangzi Contingencies
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
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