15. Tzu-yu said, Our friend Chang[174] can do hard things, but love is not yet his.
16. Tseng-tzu said, Chang is so spacious, so lordly, that at his side it is hard to do what love bids.
17. Tseng-tzu said, I have heard the Master say, Man never shows what is in him unless it be in mourning those dear to him.
18. Tseng-tzu said, I have heard the Master say, In all else we may be as good a son as Meng Chuang, but in not changing his father's ministers, or his father's rule, he is hard to match.
19. The Meng[175] made Yang Fu[176] Chief Knight,[177] who spake to Tseng-tzu about it.
Tseng-tzu said, Those above have lost their way, the people have long been astray. When thou dost get at the truth, be moved to pity, not puffed with joy.
20. Tzu-kung said, Chou[178] was not so very wicked! Thus a gentleman hates to live in a hollow, down into which runs all that is foul below heaven.
21. Tzu-kung said, A gentleman's faults are like the eating of sun or moon.[179] All men see them, and when he mends all men look up to him.
22. Kung-sun Ch'ao of Wei asked Tzu-kung, From whom did Chung-ni[180] learn?