Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 9: 《子罕》 Zi Han (The Master Shunned)

《子罕》 Passage 9.31

「唐棣之華,偏其反而。豈不爾思?室是遠而。」子曰:「未之思也,夫何遠之有?」

Legge Translation (1861)

How the flowers of the aspen-plum flutter and turn! Do I not think of you? But your house is distant.

The Master said: "It is the want of thought about it. How is it distant?"

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