" When Tsz-hiá became governor of Kü-fu, and consulted him about government, he answered, "Do not wish for speedy results.

Can any one refuse to exhort, who is true-hearted?" Speaking of the preparation of Government Notifications in his day he said, "P'i would draw up a rough sketch of what was to be said; the Shishuh then looked it carefully through and put it into proper shape; Tsz-yu next, who was master of the ceremonial of State intercourse, improved and adorned its phrases; and Tsz-ch'an of Tung-li added his scholarly embellishments thereto.

Tsz-lu asked how he would describe a perfect man.

" Tsz-lu was questioning him as to how he should serve his prince.

"Sir," said Tsz-kung, "how comes it to pass that no one knows you?"

Tsz-lu having asked what made a "superior man," he answered, "Self-culture, with a view to becoming seriously-minded.

Tsz-lu, with indignation pictured on his countenance, exclaimed, "And is a gentleman to suffer starvation?" "A gentleman," replied the Master, "will endure it unmoved, but a common person breaks out into excesses under it.

" Addressing Tsz-kung, the Master said, "You regard me as one who studies and stores up in his mind a multiplicity of thingsdo you not?""I do," he replied; "is it not so?""Not at all.

Yen Yu and Tsz-lu in an interview with Confucius told him, "The Ki is about to have an affair with Chuen-yu.

'E'en if not wealth thine object be, 'Tis all the same, thou'rt changed to me.' "Is not this apropos in such cases?" Tsz-k'in asked of Pih-yu, "Have you heard anything else peculiar from your father?" "Not yet," said he.

His face beamed with pleasure, and he said laughingly, "To kill a cockwhy use an ox-knife?" Tsz-yu, the governor, replied, "In former days, sir, I heard you say, 'Let the superior man learn right principles, and he will be loving to other men; let the ordinary person learn right principles, and he will be easily managed.'

" "And you, too, Tsz-kung," he continued, "have your aversions, have you not?" "I dislike," said he, "those plagiarists who wish to pass for wise persons.

Ch'ang-tsü said, "Who is the person driving the carriage?" "Confucius," answered Tsz-lu.

"The same," said Tsz-lu.

Tsz-lu remarked upon this, "It is not right he should evade official duties.

] BOOK XIX Teachings of Various Chief Disciples "The learned official," said Tsz-chang, "who when he sees danger ahead will risk his very life, who when he sees a chance of success is mindful of what is just and proper, who in his religious acts is mindful of the duty of reverence, and when in mourning thinks of his loss, is indeed a fit and proper person for his place.

" Again he said, "If a person hold to virtue but never advance in it, and if he have faith in right principles and do not build himself up in them, how can he be regarded either as having such, or as being without them?" Tsz-hiá's disciples asked Tsz-chang his views about intercourse with others.

" Again he said, "If a person hold to virtue but never advance in it, and if he have faith in right principles and do not build himself up in them, how can he be regarded either as having such, or as being without them?" Tsz-hiá's disciples asked Tsz-chang his views about intercourse with others.

Would they not indeed be sages, who could take in at once the first principles and the final developments of things?" Further observations of Tsz-hiá: "In the public service devote what energy and time remain to study.

Tsz-kung replied, "The teachings of Wan and Wu have not yet fallen to the ground.

Tsz-fuh King-pih went and informed Tsz-kung of this remark.

Tsz-fuh King-pih went and informed Tsz-kung of this remark.

Tsz-kung said, "Take by way of comparison the walls outside our houses.

"No use doing that," said Tsz-kung; "he is irreproachable.

" Tsz-kung replied, "In the use of words one ought never to be incautious; because a gentleman for one single utterance of his is apt to be considered a wise man, and for a single utterance may be accounted unwise.