1.
Confucius said: "Kuan Chung was quite limited in capacity."Someone asked: "Wasn't Kuan Chung frugal?"Confucius said, "Kuan had three sets of wives and his officers never worked overtime. How can he be considered to have been frugal?"
子曰:「管仲之器小哉。」或曰:「管仲俭乎」曰:「管氏有三归,官事不摄,焉得俭」
2.
Someone said: "Yung is a humane man, But he is not sharp enough with his tongue."Confucius said, "Why does he need to be sharp with his tongue? If you deal with people by smooth talk, you will soon be disliked.
或曰:「雍也仁而不佞。」子曰:「焉用佞御人以口给,屡憎于人。
3.
When Confucius entered the Grand Temple, he asked about everything. Someone said, "Who said Confucius is a master of ritual? He enters the Grand Temple and asks about everything!"Confucius, hearing this, said, "This is the ritual."
子入大庙,毎事问。或曰:「孰谓人之子知礼乎?入大庙,毎事问。」子闻之,曰:「是礼也。」
4.
Literary criticism in the last twenty years has constantlyengendered a lack or abuse of the validity of the discourse in literary theory.
近二十年中国文论的进展有目共睹，其弊端则一言以蔽之，曰缺乏有效性，或曰自说自话。
5.
The eighteenth-century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason.
英国的十八世纪也同时是启蒙主义时代，或曰理性时代。
6.
Confucius said: "I have not yet met a really solid man."Someone said, "What about Shan Ch'ang?"Confucius said, "Ch'ang is ruled by lust. How could he be solid?"
子曰:「吾未见刚者。」或对曰:「申。」子曰:「申也欲,焉得刚」
7.
Someone asked Confucius: "Why are you not involved in government?"
或谓孔子曰:「子奚不为政」
8.
These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth;(4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline.
一曰道,二曰天,三曰地,四曰将,五曰法。
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"According to the Way these are like extra food and waste, which all creatures detest. Therefore followers of the Way avoid them."
其在道也,曰:馀食赘形。物或恶之,故有道者不处。
10.
Confucius said: "Who said that Wei Shang Kai is of straight character? Someone Begged vinegar from him, and he went and got some from his neighbors and gave it to him."(Rather than giving his own).
子曰:「孰谓微生高直。或乞醯焉,乞诸邻而与之。」
11.
In respect of military method, we have,firstly, Measurement; secondly, Estimation of quantity;thirdly, Calculation; fourthly, Balancing of chances;fifthly, Victory.
兵法:一曰度,二曰量,三曰数,四曰称,五曰胜。
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Sun Tzu said: There are five ways of attacking with fire. The first is to burn soldiers in their camp;the second is to burn stores; the third is to burn baggage trains; the fourth is to burn arsenals and magazines;the fifth is to hurl dropping fire amongst the enemy.
孙子曰：凡火攻有五：一曰火人，二曰火积，三曰火辎，四曰火库，五曰火队。
13.
Someone asked for an explanation of the Great Sacrifice. Confucius said, "I don't know. If there were someone who knew this, he could see the whole world as if it were this": He pointed to the palm of his hand.
或问禘之说。子曰:「不知也;知其说者之于天下也,其如示诸斯乎」指其掌。
14.
"I do not know its name; I call it the Way. If forced to define it, I shall call it supreme. Supreme means absolute. Absolute means extending everywhere. Extending everywhere means returning to itself."
吾不知其 名,强字之曰道,强为之名曰大。大曰逝,逝曰远,远曰反。。
15.
The government has raised taxes and is trying to sugar the pill by telling its people that the money will be spent on things they need, such as housing or education.
政府又增加了税收，却对人民美其名曰钱将用于满足他们的住房或教育等的需要。
16.
Confucius once said, @Instruction knows no class distinction.
子曰：“有教无类。”
17.
: Tzu Kung asked: "What do you say of me?"Confucius said, "You are a vessel."What kind of vessel."A gemmed sacrificial vessel."
子贡问曰:「赐也何如」子曰:「女,器也。」曰:「何器也」曰:「瑚琏也。」
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Returning to the source is serenity,it is to realize one's destiny. To realize one's destiny is to know the eternal. To know the eternal is to be enlightened. Not to know the eternal is to act Blindly and court disaster.
"归根曰静, 静曰复命, 复命曰常, 知常曰明, 不知常, 妄作凶,"