Book 14: 《憲問》 Xian Wen (Xian Asked)
《憲問》 Passage 14.7
Legge Translation (1861)
The Master said: "Can there be love which does not lead to strictness with its object? Can there be loyalty which does not lead to the instruction of its object?"Word by word
- 子曰 zǐ yuē
the Master said
- 子 master, teacher — title used for Confucius
- 曰 said, spoke
- 愛 ài
to love, care for
- 之 zhī
third-person object pronoun: him, her, them
- 能 néng
to be able to, can
- 勿 wù
not, without — negative particle
- 勞 láo
to make (someone) work hard, put to toil
Watson reads this as reward rather than cause-to-toil, a minor outlier sense.
- 乎 hū
interrogative final particle
- 忠 zhōng
loyal, devoted, doing one's utmost for another
- 焉 yān
to/for him, fused preposition-pronoun particle
- 能 néng
to be able to, can
- 勿 wù
not, without — negative particle
- 誨 huì
to instruct, teach
Watson's admonish leans toward correction/warning rather than teaching, a minor outlier sense.
- 乎 hū
interrogative final particle
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