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[Chapter 7: Transmission]\n\nThe Master said, "A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old Peng."\nThe Master said, "The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied—what one of these things belongs to me?"\nThe Master said, "The leaving virtue without proper cultivation; the not thoroughly discussing what is learned; not being able to move towards righteousness of which a knowledge is gained; and not being able to change what is not good—these are the things which occasion me solicitude."\nWhen the Master was unoccupied with business, his manner was easy, and he looked pleased.\nThe Master said, "Extreme is my decay. For a long time, I have not dreamed, as I was wont to do, that I saw the Duke of Zhou."\nThe Master said, "Let the will be set on the path of duty. Let every attainment in what is good be firmly grasped. Let perfect virtue be accorded with. Let relaxation and enjoyment be found in the polite arts."\nThe Master said, "From the person bringing one's bundle of dried flesh for my teaching upwards, I have never refused instruction to anyone."\nThe Master said, "I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to explain oneself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone, and one cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson."\nWhen the Master was eating by the side of a mourner, he never ate to the full. He did not sing on the same day in which he had been weeping.\nThe Master said to Yan Yuan, "When called to office to undertake its duties; when not so called, to lie retired—it is only I and you who have attained to this." Zilu said, "If you had the conduct of the armies of a great state, whom would you have to act with you?" The Master said, "I would not have one to act with me, who will unarmed attack a tiger, or cross a river without a boat, dying without any regret. My associate must be the person who proceeds to action full of solicitude, who is fond of adjusting one's plans, and then carries them into execution."\nThe Master said, "If the search for riches is sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love."\nThe things in reference to which the Master exercised the greatest caution were—fasting, war, and sickness.\nWhen the Master was in Qi, he heard the Shao, and for three months did not know the taste of flesh. "I did not think," he said, "that music could have been made so excellent as this."\nRan You said, "Is our Master for the prince of Wei?" Zigong said, "Oh! I will ask him." He went in accordingly, and said, "What sort of people were Boyi and Shuqi?" "They were ancient worthies," said the Master. "Did they have any repinings because of their course?" The Master again replied, "They sought to act virtuously, and they did so; what was there for them to repine about?" On this, Zigong went out and said, "Our Master is not for him."\nThe Master said, "With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow—I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honours acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud."\nThe Master said, "If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults."\nThe Master's frequent themes of discourse were—the Odes, the History, and the maintenance of the Rules of propriety. On all these he frequently discoursed.\nThe duke of She asked Zilu about Confucius, and Zilu did not answer him. The Master said, "Why did you not say to him—He is simply a person, who in his eager pursuit of knowledge forgets his food, who in the joy of its attainment forgets his sorrows, and who does not perceive that old age is coming on?"\nThe Master said, "I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there."\nThe subjects on which the Master did not talk, were—extraordinary things, feats of strength, disorder, and spiritual beings.\nThe Master said, "When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them."\nThe Master said, "Heaven produced the virtue that is in me. Huan Tui—what can he do to me?"\nThe Master said, "Do you think, my disciples, that I have any concealments? I conceal nothing from you. There is nothing which I do that is not shown to you, my disciples—that is my way."\nThere were four things which the Master taught—letters, ethics, devotion of soul, and truthfulness.\nThe Master said, "A sage it is not mine to see; could I see a person of real talent and virtue, that would satisfy me."\nThe Master said, "A good person it is not mine to see; could I see a person possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. Having not and yet affecting to have, empty and yet affecting to be full, straitened and yet affecting to be at ease—it is difficult with such characteristics to have constancy."\nThe Master angled—but did not use a net. He shot—but not at birds perching.\nThe Master said, "There may be those who act without knowing why. I do not do so. Hearing much and selecting what is good and following it, seeing much and keeping it in memory—this is the second style of knowledge."\nIt was difficult to talk with the people of Huxiang, and a lad of that place having had an interview with the Master, the disciples doubted. The Master said, "I admit people's approach to me without committing myself as to what they may do when they have retired. Why must one be so severe? If a person purify oneself to wait upon me, I receive one so purified, without guaranteeing one's past conduct."\n...