Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 19: 《子張》 Zi Zhang

《子張》 Passage 19.2

子張曰:「執德不弘,信道不篤,焉能為有?焉能為亡?」

Legge Translation (1861)

Zizhang said: "When a man holds fast to virtue, but without minding it as he should, and believes in right principles, but without firm sincerity, what can it be said of him that he HAS, or what can it be said of him that he HAS NOT?"
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