The Analects/Book 5
Kung-ye Ch'ang
公冶长篇 · Kung-ye Ch'ang.
Book 5 of the Analects, 28 passages. Each passage has its own page with the Chinese text, a reading above every character, and the English translation.
5.1
The Master said of Kung-ye Ch'ang that he might be wived; although he was put in bonds, he had…
子谓公冶长：“可妻也。虽在缧绁之中，非其罪也。”…
5.2
Of Nan Yung he said that if the country were well governed he would not be out of office, and if…
子谓南容：“邦有道，不废：邦无道，免于刑戮。”…
5.3
The Master said of Tsze-chien, 'Of superior virtue indeed is such a man! If there were not…
子谓子贱：“君子哉若人！鲁无君子者，斯焉取斯？”
5.4
Tsze-kung asked, 'What do you say of me, Ts'ze? The Master said, 'You are a utensil.' 'What…
子贡问曰：“赐也何如？”子曰：“女，器也。”曰：…
5.5
Some one said, 'Yung is truly virtuous, but he is not ready with his tongue.'
或曰：“雍也仁而不佞。”子曰：“焉用佞？御人以囗给，”…
5.6
The Master was wishing Ch'i-tiao K'ai to enter on official employment. He replied, 'I am not yet…
子使漆雕开仕，对曰：“吾斯之未能信。”子说。
5.7
The Master said, 'My doctrines make no way. I will get upon a raft, and float about on the sea.…
子曰：“道不行，乘桴浮于海，从我者，其由与！”…
5.8
Mang Wu asked about Tsze-lu, whether he was perfectly virtuous. The Master said, 'I do not know.…
孟武伯问：“子路仁乎？”子曰：“不知也。”又问。…
5.9
The Master said to Tsze-kung, 'Which do you consider superior, yourself or Hui?'
子谓子贡曰：“女与回也孰愈？”对曰：“赐也何敢望回？”…
5.10
Tsai Yu being asleep during the daytime, the Master said, 'Rotten wood cannot be carved; a wall…
宰予昼寝。子曰：“朽木不可雕也，粪土之墙不可杇也。”…
5.11
The Master said, 'I have not seen a firm and unbending man.' Some one replied, 'There is Shan Ch…
子曰：“吾未见刚者。”或对曰：“申枨。”子曰：…
5.12
Tsze-kung said, 'What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.' The Master…
子贡曰：“我不欲人之加诸我也，吾亦欲无加诸人。”…
5.13
Tsze-kung said, 'The Master's personal displays of his principles and ordinary descriptions of…
子贡曰：“夫子之文章，可得而闻也：夫子之言性与天道，”…
5.14
When Tsze-lu heard anything, if he had not yet succeeded in carrying it into practice, he was…
子路有闻，未之能行，唯恐有闻。
5.15
Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'On what ground did Kung-wan get that title of Wan?' The Master said,…
子贡问曰：“孔文子何以谓之‘文’也？”子曰：…
5.16
The Master said of Tsze-ch'an that he had four of the characteristics of a superior man:-- in…
子谓子产：“有君子之道四焉：其行己也恭，其事上也敬，”…
5.17
The Master said, 'Yen P'ing knew well how to maintain friendly intercourse. The acquaintance…
子曰：“晏平仲善与人交，久而敬之。”
5.18
The Master said, 'Tsang Wan kept a large tortoise in a house, on the capitals of the pillars of…
子曰：“臧文仲居蔡，山节藻梲，何如其知也？”
5.19
Tsze-chang asked, saying, 'The minister Tsze- wan thrice took office, and manifested no joy in…
子张问曰：“令尹子文三仕为令尹，无喜色；三已之，”…
5.20
Chi Wan thought thrice, and then acted. When the Master was informed of it, he said, 'Twice may…
季文子三思而后行。子闻之，曰：“再，斯可矣。”
5.21
The Master said, 'When good order prevailed in his country, Ning Wu acted the part of a wise man…
子曰：“宁武子，邦有道，则知；邦无道，则愚。”…
5.22
When the Master was in Ch'an, he said, 'Let me return! Let me return! The little children of my…
子在陈，曰：“归与！归与！吾党之小子狂简，斐然成章，”…
5.23
The Master said, 'Po-i and Shu-ch'i did not keep the former wickednesses of men in mind, and…
子曰：“伯夷、叔齐不念旧恶，怨是用希。”
5.24
The Master said, 'Who says of Wei-shang Kao that he is upright? One begged some vinegar of him,…
子曰：“孰谓微生高直？或乞醯焉，乞诸其邻而与之。”
5.25
The Master said, 'Fine words, an insinuating appearance, and excessive respect;-- Tso Ch'iu-ming…
子曰：“巧言、令色、足恭，左丘明耻之，丘亦耻之。”…
5.26
Yen Yuan and Chi Lu being by his side, the Master said to them, 'Come, let each of you tell his…
颜渊、季路侍。子曰：“盍各言尔志？”子路曰：…
5.27
The Master said, 'It is all over! I have not yet seen one who could perceive his faults, and…
子曰：“已矣乎！吾未见能见其过而内自讼者也。”
5.28
The Master said, 'In a hamlet of ten families, there may be found one honourable and sincere as…
子曰：“十室之邑，必有忠信如丘者焉，不如丘之好学也。”…