Chapter
1 5 | six or seven worthy and sage sovereigns. The kingdom
2 5 | conduct of affairs. When a Sage shall again arise, he will
3 5 | have you attained to be a Sage?'~19. Mencius said, 'Oh!
4 5 | saying, "Master, are you a Sage?" Confucius answered him, "
5 5 | Confucius answered him, "A Sage is what I cannot rise to.
6 5 | wise: -- Master, you ARE a Sage." Now, since Confucius would
7 5 | himself to be regarded as a Sage, what words were those?'~
8 5 | had each one member of the Sage. Zan Niû, the disciple Min,
9 5 | wisdom sufficient to know the sage. Even had they been ranking
10 8 | duke of Châu?' 'An ancient sage,' was the reply. 'Is it
11 8 | not know.' 'Then, though a sage, he still fell into error?' '
12 10| that you are likewise a sage. We wish to become the subjects
13 10| become the subjects of a sage.'~3. When Ch'an Hsiang saw
14 10| anxious solicitude to the sage Shun, and he appointed Hsieh
15 10| that Yû Zo resembled the sage, wished to render to him
16 12| condemn me."~9. 'Once more, sage sovereigns cease to arise,
17 15| and the age of the one sage was posterior to that of
18 15| influence of a sovereign sage terminates in the fifth
19 15| The influence of a mere sage does the same.~2. 'Although
20 21| solitary exception to this? The sage and we are the same in kind.~
21 25| abundance of these things. A sage governs the kingdom so as
22 26| wandered in the gate of the sage, finds it difficult to think
23 26| on the doctrines of the sage, does not advance to them
24 26| nature. But a man must be a sage before he can satisfy the
25 27| place.'~Mencius said, 'A sage is the teacher of a hundred
26 28| the heavenly course by the sage; -- these are the appointment
27 28| he is what is called a sage.~8. 'When the sage is beyond
28 28| called a sage.~8. 'When the sage is beyond our knowledge,
29 28| distance in time from the sage is so far from being remote,
30 28| very near at hand was the sage's residence. In these circumstances,
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