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The Master said, "There is Yung! He might occupy the place of a prince."
子曰：“雍也可使南面。”
Chung-kung asked about Tsze-sang Po-tsze. The Master said, "He may pass. He does not mind small matters."
仲弓問子桑伯子，子曰：“可也簡。”
Chung-kung said, "If a man cherish in himself a reverential feeling of the necessity of attention to business,
仲弓曰：“居敬而行簡，
though he may be easy in small matters in his government of the people, that may be allowed.
以臨其民，不亦可乎？
But if he cherish in himself that easy feeling, and also carry it out in his practice, is not such an easymode of procedure excessive?"
居簡而行簡，無乃大簡乎？”
The Master said, "Yung's words are right."
子曰：“雍之言然。”
The Duke Ai asked which of the disciples loved to learn.
哀公問：“弟子孰為好學？”
Confucius replied to him, "There was Yen Hui; he loved to learn. He did not transfer his anger; he did not repeat a fault.
孔子對曰：“有顏回者好學，不遷怒，不貳過，
Unfortunately, his appointed time was short and he died; and now there is not such another.
不幸短命死矣，今也則亡，
I have not yet heard of any one who loves to learn as he did."
未聞好學者也。”
Tsze-hwa being employed on a mission to Ch'i, the disciple Zan requested grain for his mother.
子華使于齊，冉子為其母請粟，
The Master said, "Give her a fu."
子曰：“與之釜。”
Yen requested more. "Give her a yi," said the Master. Yen gave her five ping.
請益，曰：“與之庾。”冉子與之粟五秉。
The Master said, "When Ch'ih was proceeding to Ch'i, he had fat horses to his carriage, and wore light furs.
子曰：“赤之適齊也，乘肥馬，衣輕裘。
I have heard that a superior man helps the distressed, but does not add to the wealth of the rich."
吾聞之也，君子周急不繼富。”
