Analect

 1 2 |         Ch'ih said, "What did you mean?" The Master replied, "That
 2 2 |    catholic and not partisan. The mean man is partisan and not
 3 4 |        saying, "What do his words mean?" Tsang said, "The doctrine
 4 4 |    righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain."
 5 6 |          drink, and living in his mean narrow lane, while others
 6 6 |         and not after that of the mean man." Tsze-yu being governor
 7 6 |         according to the Constant Mean! Rare for a long time has
 8 7 |      meanness. It is better to be mean than to be insubordinate."
 9 7 |       satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress."
10 8 |           governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to
11 8 |         apron. He lived in a low, mean house, but expended all
12 9 |        many things, but they were mean matters. Must the superior
13 9 |          am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite
14 11|          Shih goes beyond the due mean, and Shang does not come
15 12|          their bad qualities. The mean man does the opposite of
16 12|          be upright.' What did he mean?" Tsze-hsia said, "Truly
17 13|            but not adulatory; the mean man is adulatory, but not
18 13|  according to their capacity. The mean man is difficult to serve,
19 13|           ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a
20 14|        But there never has been a mean man, and, at the same time,
21 14|      upwards; the progress of the mean man is downwards." The Master
22 14|      Tsze-kung said, "What do you mean by thus saying-that no one
23 15|           to endure want, but the mean man, when he is in want,
24 15|           is in himself. What the mean man seeks, is in others."
25 16|          the words of sages. "The mean man does not know the ordinances
26 17|         is like one of the small, mean people;-yea, is he not like
27 17|     Master said, "There are those mean creatures! How impossible
28 19| principles." Tsze-hsia said, "The mean man is sure to gloss his
29 20|       Sincerely hold fast the due Mean. If there shall be distress