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The Master said, "I admit people's approach to me without committing myself as to what they may do when they have retired. Why must one be so severe?
子曰：“與其進也，不與其退也，唯何甚？
If a man purify himself to wait upon me, I receive him so purified, without guaranteeing his past conduct."
人潔己以進，與其潔也，不保其往也。”
The Master said, "Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand."
子曰：“仁遠乎哉？我欲仁，斯仁至矣。”
The minister of crime of Ch'an asked whether the duke Chao knew propriety,
陳司敗問：“昭公知禮乎？”
and Confucius said, "He knew propriety." Confucius having retired, the minister bowed to Wu-ma Ch'i to come forward, and said,
孔子曰：“知禮。”孔子退，揖巫馬期而進之，曰：
"I have heard that the superior man is not a partisan. May the superior man be a partisan also?
“吾聞君子不黨，君子亦黨乎？
The prince married a daughter of the house of WU, of the same surname with himself, and called her, 'The elder Tsze of Wu.'
君取于吳，為同姓，謂之吳孟子。
If the prince knew propriety, who does not know it?"
君而知禮，孰不知禮？”
Wu-ma Ch'i reported these remarks, and the Master said, "I am fortunate! If I have any errors, people are sure to know them."
巫馬期以告，子曰：“丘也幸，茍有過，人必知之。”
When the Master was in company with a person who was singing, if he sang well, he would make him repeat the song, while he accompanied it with his own voice.
子與人歌而善，必使反之，而后和之。
