[Footnote 65: Died 1105 B.C. He was the younger brother of King Wu, the founder of the Chou dynasty, as great in peace as the King in war. He was so bent on carrying out the old principles of government that 'if anything did not tally with them, he looked up and thought, till day passed into night, and if by luck he found the answer he sat and waited for the dawn' (Mencius, Book VIII, chapter 20).] If I lift one corner and the other three are left unturned, I say no more. 9. When eating beside a mourner the Master never ate his fill. On days when he had been wailing, he did not sing. 10. The Master said to Yen Yuean, To go forward when in office and lie quiet when not; only I and thou can do that. Tzu-lu said, If ye had to lead three armies, Sir, whom would ye have with you? No man, said the Master, that would face a tiger bare-fisted, or plunge into a river and die without a qualm; but one, indeed, who, fearing what may come, lays his plans well and carries them through. 11. The Master said, If shouldering a whip were a sure road to riches I should turn carter; but since there is no sure road, I tread the path I love. 12. The Master gave heed to abstinence, war and sickness. 13. When he was in Ch'i, for three months after hearing the Shao played, the Master knew not the taste of flesh. I did not suppose, he said, that music could reach such heights. 14. Jan Yu said, Is the Master for the lord of Wei?[66] [Footnote 66: The grandson of Duke Ling, the husband of Nan-tzu. His father had been driven from the country for plotting to kill Nan-tzu. When Duke Ling died, he was succeeded by his grandson, who opposed by force his father's attempts to seize the throne.] I shall ask him, said Tzu-kung. He went in, and said, What kind of men were Po-yi[67] and Shu-ch'i? Worthy men of yore, said the Master. Did they rue the past? They sought love and found it; what had they to rue? Tzu-kung went out, and said, The Master is not for him. 15. The Master said, Eating coarse rice and drinking water, with bent arm for pillow, we may be merry; but ill-gotten wealth and honours are to me a wandering cloud. 16. The Master said, Given a few more years, making fifty for learning the Yi,[68] I might be freed from gross faults. [Footnote 67: See Book V, Sec. 22.] [Footnote 68: An abstruse, ancient classic, usually called the Book of Changes.] 17. The Master liked to talk of poetry, history, and the upkeep of courtesy. Of all these he liked to talk. 18. The Duke of She asked Tzu-lu about Confucius. Tzu-lu did not answer. The Master said, Why didst thou not say, He is a man that forgets to eat in his eagerness, whose sorrows are forgotten in gladness, who knows not that age draws near? 19. The Master said, I was not born to wisdom: I loved the past, and sought it earnestly there. 20. The Master never talked of goblins, strength, disorder, or spirits.