4 chapters君子

“君子”本来指有位的人，孔子多用来说有德的人，常和“小人”对着讲。朱熹注“君子，成德之名”。

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1. 1.1Learning and practising it in season

   子曰：学而时习之，不亦说乎？有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？人不知而不愠，不亦君子乎？

   What you learned, keep taking out to practise and to do. Today: watching the tutorial ten times is watching another bird fly.

2. 1.2Filial and fraternal duty as the root of ren

   有子曰：其为人也孝弟，而好犯上者，鲜矣；不好犯上，而好作乱者，未之有也。君子务本，本立而道生。孝弟也者，其为仁之本与！

   Filial and fraternal duty is where practising ren begins. Today: kind to strangers online, no patience for one's parents at home — that is starting from the far end.

3. 1.8A gentleman without weight has no dignity

   子曰：君子不重则不威，学则不固。主忠信。无友不如己者。过则勿惮改。

   Zhu Xi takes the words as they stand and does not talk his way around them. Today: the one person willing to tell you to your face tells you twice; if you don't change, the third time he says nothing.

4. 1.14A gentleman does not seek to eat his fill

   子曰：君子食无求饱，居无求安，敏于事而慎于言，就有道而正焉，可谓好学也已。

   Not going hungry on purpose; simply too occupied to mind.