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 the utmost care; to avoid being overcome with wine:—which of these virtues have I?

In matters pertaining to ceremonies and music, the ancients were more or less uncivilised in comparison with the refinement of a later age. Nevertheless, in practice I take the earlier period as my guide.

As an arbiter in litigation I am no better than other men. But surely the grand object to achieve is that there shall be no litigation at all.

Wei-shêng Mou, addressing Confucius, said: Ch'iu, why is it you keep hopping about thus from place to place? Is it not in order to show off your fine rhetoric?—Confucius replied: I do not allow myself to indulge in fine rhetoric; no, it is because I consider obstinacy a fault.

The Master said: There are none who know