Book 15: 《衛靈公》 Wei Ling Gong (Duke Ling of Wey)
《衛靈公》 Passage 15.30
子曰：「過而不改，是謂過矣。」
Legge Translation (1861)
The Master said: "To have faults and not to reform them, — this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults."Word by word
- 子曰 zǐ yuē
the Master said
- 子 master, teacher; here referring to Confucius
- 曰 said, spoke
- 過 guò
to err, make a mistake, have a fault
- 而 ér
coordinating conjunction: and, and yet
- 不 bù
not
- 改 gǎi
to correct, reform, amend one's ways
- 是 shì
demonstrative pronoun: this, that
- 謂 wèi
to call, term, name
- 過 guò
a fault, an error, a transgression
the same word as the first 過, but here in predicate position after 是謂: what truly deserves the name 'fault'
- 矣 yǐ
final particle of assertion: indeed, truly
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