Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 8: 《泰伯》 Tai Bo

《泰伯》 Passage 8.11

子曰:「如有周公之才之美,使驕且吝,其餘不足觀也已。」

Legge Translation (1861)

The Master said: "Though a man have abilities as admirable as those of the Duke of Zhou, yet if he be proud and niggardly, those other things are really not worth being looked at."
周公

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