Analects 8.10
The Analects (論語), BOOK VIII. T'AI-PO 泰伯第八
子曰、好勇疾貧、亂也、人而不仁、疾之已甚、亂也。
The Master said, "The man who is fond of daring and is dissatisfied with poverty, will proceed to insubordination. So will the man who is not virtuous, when you carry your dislike of him to an extreme."
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
- 好hǎogood, excellent, fine; proper, suitable;
- 勇yǒngbrave, courageous, fierce
- 疾jísickness, illness, disease; to envy, to
- 貧pínpoor, needy, impoverished; lacking
- 亂luànanarchy, chaos; revolt
- 也yěalso, too
- 人rénman, person; people
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 仁rénbenevolent, humane, kind
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 已yǐalready; finished; to stop; then, afterw
- 甚shénconsiderably; very, extremely; a great e
Passages with shared wording
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