When Tsze-sze was living in Wei, there came a band from Ch'î to plunder. Some one said to him, 'The plunderers are coming; why not leave this?' Tsze-sze said, 'If I go away, whom will the prince have to guard the State with?'Go here to read the introductory post to this serialized version of the Works of Mencius.
Mencius said, 'The philosophers Tsang and Tsze-sze agreed in the principle of their conduct. Tsang was a teacher; in the place of a father or elder brother. Tsze-sze was a minister; in a meaner place. If the philosophers Tsang and Tsze-sze had exchanged places the one would have done what the other did.'
~ James Legge translation via nothingistic.org ~
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Mencius - Book 4, Part 2, Chapter 31B
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