analects
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1. analects - Noun
3. Analects - Proper noun
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Alt. of Analecta
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According to Analects, book IX, chapter 17, “the master said I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves sex ”.
After all, we all know the famous line from the Analects of Confucius: "Zengzi said, 'Each day I examine myself in three ways…'" We are so used to examining ourselves that even when we are victimized in a scam, we blame ourselves.
New Directions (translation) * 1951 Confucius: Analects (John) Kaspar & (David) Horton, Square $ Series, New York, (translation) * 1954 The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius.
Confucius holds that, when one sacrifices to the gods, one must sacrifice as if the gods are present (Analects 3:12, Lau: 69).
Faber, London, (essays) * 1937 Confucius: Digest of the Analects, edited and published by Giovanni Scheiwiller, (translations) * 1938 Culture.
In Analects 7.23 Confucius says that he has no doubt left that the Tiān gave him life, and from it he had developed the virtue (Dé, 德).