Book 15: 《衛靈公》 Wei Ling Gong (Duke Ling of Wey)
《衛靈公》 Passage 15.21
Legge Translation (1861)
The Master said: "What the superior man seeks, is in himself. What the mean man seeks, is in others."Word by word
- 子曰 zǐ yuē
the Master said
- 子 master, honorific title for Confucius
- 曰 said, spoke (introduces quoted speech)
- 君子 jūn zǐ
gentleman, exemplary person
- 君 lord, ruler; 君子 is literally a lord's son
- 子 son; 君子 is literally a lord's son, one of the ruling class, which the Analects makes a term of character
- 求 qiú
to seek, look for
- 諸 zhū
contraction of 之於: it, in/from
諸 here fuses the object pronoun 之 (it) with the preposition 於 (in, from), so translators split its work between a pronoun and a locative preposition or collapse it into one.
- 己 jǐ
himself, oneself
- 小人 xiǎo rén
petty person, small-minded person
- 小 small, petty, morally inferior
- 人 person, man
- 求 qiú
to seek, look for
- 諸 zhū
contraction of 之於: it, in/from
諸 here fuses the object pronoun 之 (it) with the preposition 於 (in, from), so translators split its work between a pronoun and a locative preposition or collapse it into one.
- 人 rén
other people, others
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