"
Again he said, "If a person hold to virtue but never advance in it, and
if he have faith in right principles and do not build himself up in
them, how can he be regarded either as having such, or as being without
them?"
Tsz-hia's disciples asked Tsz-chang his views about intercourse with
others. "What says your Master?" he rejoined. "He says," they replied,
"'Associate with those who are qualified, and repel from you such as are
not,'" Tsz-chang then said, "That is different from what I have learnt.
A superior man esteems the worthy and wise, and bears with all. He makes
much of the good and capable, and pities the incapable. Am I eminently
worthy and wise?--who is there then among men whom I will not bear with?
Am I not worthy and wise?--others will be minded to repel me: I have
nothing to do with repelling them."
Sayings of Tsz-hia:--
"Even in inferior pursuits there must be something worthy of
contemplation, but if carried to an extreme there is danger of
fanaticism; hence the superior man does not engage in them.
"The student who daily recognizes how much he yet lacks, and as the
months pass forgets not what he has succeeded in learning, may
undoubtedly be called a lover of learning.
"Wide research and steadfast purpose, eager questioning and close
reflection--all this tends to humanize a man.
"As workmen spend their time in their workshops for the perfecting of
their work, so superior men apply their minds to study in order to make
themselves thoroughly conversant with their subjects.
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