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 of the substance are closely connected. Stripped of hair, the hide of a tiger or a leopard is very like the hide of a dog or a sheep.

Duke Ai asked Yu Jo, saying: It has been a year of famine. My exchequer is low. What am I to do?—Yu Jo replied: Why not collect tithes?— Why, said the Duke, with a tax of two-tenths I still have not enough. How am I to make one-tenth do?—If the people have plenty, was the reply, how can the Prince alone be in want? But if the people are in want, how can the Prince alone have plenty?

Tsêng Tzǔ said of the higher type of man that his culture tended to bring him into communion with friends, and his friendships tended to heighten his altruism.

The disciples of Tzǔ Hsia asked Tzǔ Chang about the principles which should govern friendship. Tzǔ Chang said: What is Tzǔ Hsia's opinion?—They replied: Tzǔ Hsia says, Associate with those who come up to your standard; reject all those who do not.—This, said Tzǔ Chang, is different from what I have been taught. The nobler sort of man honours the virtuous and wise, but he admits to his society all men without distinction. He admires the good, but he also pities the weaker brethren. Am I a man of great wisdom and goodness?—then who is