一孔录The video for this chapter is still in production. For now this page gives the original text, the facsimile page, a working translation and the commentary; the full reading follows when the video is out.
子曰：已矣乎！吾未見好德如好色者也。The Master said: It is hopeless! I have never seen anyone who loves virtue as much as he loves beauty.
What this chapter says
一孔按：孔子叹罢了罢了，我没见过爱德像爱色那样的人。子罕篇已有此语，这里多了“已矣乎”，叹终究见不到。常有人问：孔子叹“已矣乎，吾未见好德如好色者也”，为什么这次多了一声叹？上面是一孔录的回答。
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白Plain Chinese
孔子说，算了吧，我还没见过爱德像爱美色那样真切的人。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Same line elsewhere
- Analects 9.17 吾未見好德如好色者也。
Relationship map of the whole book · The Analects, AI-reconstructed edition (PDF)
Close reading and checking
For readers who want to go deeper or check our work: key words in the commentary, what other commentators say, textual variants, the commentaries in their own words with facsimile pages, pronunciation and corrections. Tap a heading to open it.
常The common reading
孔子叹“已矣乎，吾未见好德如好色者也”，为什么这次多了一声叹？
注Key words in the commentary
已矣乎，叹其终不得而见之也。
核Zhu Xi's commentary, line by line
Zhu Xi's own words on each line of this chapter, each checked against the base-edition page. Other commentators are added when the chapter is covered. About this edition
| Line | Quoted text | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 子曰：已矣乎！ | “已矣乎，叹其终不得而见之也。” | page 213 |
见Cross-references
- 吾未见好德如好色 Elsewhere in the Analects：子曰：吾未见好德如好色者也。（《论语》集注分章9.17（底本第 125 页））
家Other commentaries
Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 八
“既先云己未見也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同为好德不如好色章加已矣乎而叹终难见；钱以辨己心所好为学之要，朱直释叹其终不得见。 |
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