" The Duke of Sheh in a conversation with Confucius said, "There are some straightforward persons in my neighborhood.

Soliloquizing upon this, Confucius said, "Since he uses me to back his ministers, [30] I did not dare not to announce the matter to him; and now he says, 'Inform the Three Chiefs.'" He went to the Three Chiefs and informed them, but nothing could be done.

"From Confucius," Tsz-lu responded.

[Footnote 30: Confucius had now retired from office, and this incident occurred only two years before his death.]

It is a custom much older than the time of Confucius.]

" BOOK XVII The Master Induced to Take OfficeNature and Habit Yang Ho was desirous of having an interview with Confucius, but on the latter's failing to go and see him, he sent a present of a pig to his house.

And if it should happen that my services were enlisted, I might create for him another East Chowdon't you think so?" Tsz-chang asked Confucius about the virtue of philanthropy.

Were I to adopt crooked ways in their service, why need I leave the land where my parents dwell?" Duke King of Ts'i remarked respecting his attitude towards Confucius, "If he is to be treated like the Chief of the Ki family, I cannot do it.

" Confucius, hearing of this, went away.

Tsieh-yu, the madman of Ts'u, was once passing Confucius, singing as he went along.

" Kung-sun Ch'an of Wei inquired of Tsz-kung how Confucius acquired his learning.

Even the pretended disciples of Confucius confused the precepts of the Master, and by stripping them of their narrow significance rendered them nugatory.

It was not the fiery lava he had anticipated, but a soft, caressing nectar, fragrant as if distilled from celestial flowers of the time of Confucius.

He was more cheerful than Confucius, who felt that his life had been a failure; more serene than Plato when surrounded by admiring followers.

[Non-Biblical prophets and religious founders] Gautama, Buddha; Zoroaster, Confucius, Bab-ed-Din^, Mohammed.

A lot of rubbish from Confucius, with a farrago of useless knowledge anent the breeching and birching of babies in Japan.

By reading, in succession, the articles Confucius, Fortification, Sandwich Islands, and Æsthetics, you will form some notion of the mingled emotions with which I remain: Yours truly,

Pythagoras instituted at Crotona an annual festival for the distaff; Confucius, in China, did the same for the spindle; and these celebrated not the freedom, but the serfdom, of woman.

Le roman de Confucius.

Le roman de Confucius.

Confucius, The Unwobbling pivot and The Great digest.

Confucius the man and the myth.

Le roman de Confucius.

SEE CONFUCIUS.

The corruption of a notorious courtier would have made no impression: the King had already been overwhelmed with such accusations, and they had lost their effect: but to have seduced the virtuous Mirabeau, the very Confucius of the revolution, was a kind of profanation of the holy fire, well calculated to revive the languid rage, and extinguish the small remains of humanity yet left among the people.