CHAPTER VI Nan Kung Kua remarked to Confucius by way of inquiry: 'Is it not a fact that Prince I excelled as an archer, and Ao could propel a boat on dry land, yet neither died a natural death, while Yu and Chi, who took a personal interest in agriculture, became possessed of the empire?' The Master made no reply, but when Nan Kung Kua had withdrawn, he observed: 'A scholar indeed is such a man! Such a man has a true estimation of virtue!'
CHAPTER VII 'There may perhaps be men of the higher type who fail in virtue, but there has never been one of the lower type who possessed virtue.'
CHAPTER VIII The Master said: 'Can love be other than exacting, or loyalty refrain from admonition?'
CHAPTER IX The Master said: 'In preparing a state document in Cheng, Pi Shen drafted it, Shih Shu revised it, the Foreign Minister Tzu Yu amended it, and Tzu Chan of Tung Li embellished it'.
CHAPTER X
1) Somebody asked the Master what he thought about Tzu Chan: 'He is a kindly man', was the reply.
2) Asked about Tzu Hsi, he said: 'That fellow indeed!'
3) Asked about Kuan Chung, he said: 'There was a man! The head of the Po family was despoiled for him of his town of Pien with its three hundred families, yet never even complained, though he had to live on coarse food to the end of his days.'