子夏曰:“虽小道,必有可观者焉,致远恐泥,是以君子不为也。”
1Tsze-hsia said, 'Even in inferior studies and employments there is something worth being looked at; but if it be attempted to carry them out to what is remote, there is a danger of their proving inapplicable. Therefore, the superior man does not practise them.'