[Footnote 139: Another of these _seigneurs du temps jadis_ that is more to us than a dim shadow, for he still lives in the pages of Mencius, who tells us that, He was not ashamed of a foul lord, and did not refuse a small post. On coming in he did not hide his worth, but held his own way. Neglected and idle, he did not grumble; straitened and poor, he did not mope. When brought together with country folk he was quite at his ease and could not bear to leave them. Thou art thou, he said, and I am I: standing beside me with thy coat off, or thy body naked, how canst thou defile me? (Book X, chapter 1). He stopped if a hand was raised to stop him, for he did not care whether he went or no (Book III, chapter 9).] 20. The Master said, A gentleman asks of himself, the small man asks of others. 21. The Master said, A gentleman is firm, not quarrelsome; a friend, not a partisan. 22. The Master said, A gentleman does not raise a man for his words, nor spurn the speech for the man. 23. Tzu-kung said, Is there one word by which we may walk till life ends? The Master said, Fellow-feeling, perhaps. Do not do unto others what thou wouldst not have done to thee. 24. The Master said, Of the men that I meet, whom do I cry down, whom do I overpraise? Or, if I overpraise them, it is after testing them. It was owing to this people that the three lines of kings went the straight way. 25. The Master said, I have still known historians that would leave a gap in their text, and men that would lend a horse to another to ride. Now it is so no more. 26. The Master said, Cunning words confound the mind; petty impatience confounds great projects. 27. The Master said, The hatred of the many must be looked into; the love of the many must be looked into. 28. The Master said, The man can exalt the Way: it is not the Way that exalts the man. 29. The Master said, The fault is to cleave to a fault. 30. The Master said, I have spent whole days without food and whole nights without sleep, thinking, and gained nothing by it. Learning is better. 31. The Master said, A gentleman thinks of the Way; he does not think of food. Sow, and famine may follow; learn, and pay may come; but a gentleman grieves for the Way; to be poor does not grieve him. 32. The Master said, What wisdom has got will be lost again, unless love hold it fast. Wisdom to get and love to hold fast, without dignity of bearing, will not be honoured among men. Wisdom to get, love to hold fast and dignity of bearing, without courteous ways are not enough. 33. The Master said, A gentleman has no small knowledge, but he can carry out big things: the small man can carry out nothing big, but he may be knowing in small things. 34. The Master said, Love is more to the people than fire and water. I have seen men come to their death by fire and water: I have seen no man that love brought to his death. 35. The Master said, When love is at stake yield not to an army.