Analects 7.29
The Analects (論語), BOOK VII. SHU R 述而第七
子曰、仁遠乎哉、我欲仁、斯仁至矣。
The Master said, "Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is 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
- 仁rénbenevolent, humane, kind
- 遠yuǎndistant, remote, far; profound
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 哉zāifinal exclamatory particle
- 我wǒI, me, my; our, us
- 欲yùdesire, want, longing, intent
- 斯sīthis, thus, such; emphatic particle; use
- 至zhìreach, arrive; very, extremely
- 矣yǐparticle of completed action
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 20.2
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Mencius 1A.7
- Analects 8.7
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
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