Confucius. Book 1, Chapter 10.
Book 1, Hsio R.
1. Tsze-ch'in asked Tsze-kung, saying, "When our master comes to any country, he does not fail to learn all about its government. Does he ask his information? or is it given to him?"
2. Tsze-kung said, "Our master is benign, upright, courteous, temperate, and complaisant, and thus he gets his information. The master's mode of asking information! ‹ is it not different from that of other men?"
Book 1, Hsio R.
1. Tsze-ch'in asked Tsze-kung, saying, "When our master comes to any country, he does not fail to learn all about its government. Does he ask his information? or is it given to him?"
2. Tsze-kung said, "Our master is benign, upright, courteous, temperate, and complaisant, and thus he gets his information. The master's mode of asking information! ‹ is it not different from that of other men?"
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Text source: Lun Yu, The Confucian Analects. Translated by James Legge.
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