the Master; "if they are not to have their course, it is so destined.
What can Liáu do against Destiny?"

"There are worthy men," said the Master, "fleeing from the world; some
from their district; some from the sight of men's looks; some from the
language they hear."

"The men who have risen from their posts and withdrawn in this manner
are seven in number."

Tsz-lu, having lodged overnight in Shih-mun, was accosted by the
gate-keeper in the morning. "Where from?" he asked. "From Confucius,"
Tsz-lu responded. "That is the man," said he, "who knows things are not
up to the mark, and is making some ado about them, is it not?"

When the Master was in Wei, he was once pounding on the musical stone,
when a man with a basket of straw crossed his threshold, and exclaimed,
"Ah, there is a heart that feels! Aye, drub the stone!" After which he
added, "How vulgar! how he hammers away on one note!--and no one knows
him, and he gives up, and all is over!

Be it deep, our skirts we'll raise to the waist,
--Or shallow, then up to the knee,'"

"What determination!" said the Master. "Yet it was not
hard to do."

Tsz-chang once said to him, "In the 'Book of the Annals'
it is stated that while Káu-tsung was in the Mourning Shed he
spent the three years without speaking. What is meant by