Analect

 1 3 |         prince should employ his ministers, and how ministers should
 2 3 |    employ his ministers, and how ministers should serve their prince.
 3 3 |          the rules of propriety; ministers should serve their prince
 4 8 |       instituted!" Shun had five ministers, and the empire was well
 5 8 |        Wu said, "I have ten able ministers." Confucius said, "Is not
 6 8 |       woman among them. The able ministers were no more than nine men. "
 7 9 |          the disciples to act as ministers to him. During a remission
 8 9 | deceitful! By pretending to have ministers when I have them not, whom
 9 9 |       should die in the hands of ministers, is it not better that I
10 9 |        Abroad, to serve the high ministers and nobles; at home, to
11 11|         iu could be called great ministers. The Master said, "I thought
12 11|      they may be called ordinary ministers." Tsze-zan said, "Then they
13 16|         thing; neither of us two ministers wishes it." Confucius said, "
14 16| generations. When the subsidiary ministers of the great officers hold
15 18|         does not cause the great ministers to repine at his not employing
16 19|          in his not changing the ministers of his father, nor his father'
17 20|         dare not pardon, and thy ministers, O God, I do not keep in