Analects 9.20
The Analects (論語), BOOK IX. TSZE HAN 子罕第九
子謂顏淵曰、惜乎、吾見其進也、未見其止也。
The Master said of Yen Yuan, "Alas! I saw his constant advance. I never saw him stop in his progress."
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
- 顏yánface, facial appearance
- 淵yuānabyss, depth; to surge up, to bubble up
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 惜xīpity, regret; to rue; to begrudge
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 吾wúI, my, our; to resist, to impede
- 見jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 其qíhis, her, its, their; that
- 進jìnto advance, to make progress; to come in
- 也yěalso, too
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 止zhǐto stop, to halt; to detain; to desist
Passages with shared wording
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Analects 12.8
- Analects 7.10
- Analects 7.28
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
- Mencius 7A.44
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