Analects
Confucius
A collection of small, sharp conversations on how to live with other people, mostly remembered because they refuse to be simple rules.
Confucius
-552–-479
Confucius spent years as an itinerant adviser to rulers who mostly ignored him; the Analects was assembled by disciples after his death.
Feels like morality, wonder and power.
The ambition that sounds like a holiday, and the teacher who prefers it.
Last of all, the Master asked Tsǎng Hsî, “Tien, what are your wishes?” Tien, pausing as he was playing on his lute, while it was yet twanging, laid the instrument aside, and rose. “My wishes,” he said, “are different from the cherished purposes of these three gentlemen.” “What harm is there in that?” said the Master; “do you also, as well as they, speak out your wishes.” Tien then said, “In this, the last month of spring, with the dress of the season all complete, along with five or six young men who have assumed the cap, and six or seven boys, I would wash in the Î, enjoy the breeze among the rain altars, and return home singing.” The Master heaved a sigh and said, “I give my approval to Tien.” Books by Confucius
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