The Analects

Yang Huo: dispositions and learning

Explores dispositions and habits, the relationship of virtues such as kindness or courage to learning, and language and music.

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陽貨欲見孔子,孔子不見,歸孔子豚。孔子時其亡也,而往拜之,遇諸塗。謂孔子曰:「來,予與爾言。」曰:「懷其寶而迷其邦,可謂仁乎?」曰:「不可。」「好從事而亟失時,可謂知乎?」曰:「不…
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