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The Master said, "In an act of parricide or regicide, they would not follow him."
子曰：“弒父與君，亦不從也。”
Tsze-lu got Tsze-kao appointed governor of Pi. The Master said, "You are injuring a man's son."
子路使子羔為費宰，子曰：“賊夫人之子。”
Tsze-lu said, "There are, there, common people and officers; there are the altars of the spirits of the land and grain. Why must one read books before he can be considered to have learned?"
子路曰：“有民人焉，有社稷焉，何必讀書然后為學。”
The Master said, "It is on this account that I hate your glib-tongued people."
子曰：“是故惡夫佞者。”
Tsze-lu, Tsang Hsi, Zan Yu, and Kunghsi Hwa were sitting by the Master. He said to them, "Though I am a day or so older than you, do not think of that.
子路、曾皙、冉有、公西華侍坐，子曰：“以吾一日長乎爾，毋吾以也。
From day to day you are saying, 'We are not known.' If some ruler were to know you, what would you like to do?"
居則曰‘不吾知也’如或知爾，則何以哉？”
Tsze-lu hastily and lightly replied, "Suppose the case of a state of ten thousand chariots; let it be straitened between other large cities; let it be suffering from invading armies; and to this let there be added a famine in corn and in all vegetables,
子路率爾而對曰：“千乘之國，攝乎大國之間，加之以師旅，因之以饑饉，
if I were intrusted with the government of it, in three years' time I could make the people to be bold, and to recognize the rules of righteous conduct." The Master smiled at him.
由也為之，比及三年，可使有勇，且知方也。”夫子哂之。
