Thursday, February 23, 2012

Chapter 13, Part 28 - Confucius

Tsze-lu asked, saying, "What qualities must a man possess to entitle him to be called a scholar?" The Master said, "He must be thus, earnest, urgent, and bland: among his friends, earnest and urgent; among his brethren, bland."
~ James Legge translation via The Internet Classics Archive ~
Go here to read the introductory post to this serialized version of the Analects of Confucius.

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