交友在《论语》里是修身的一部分:曾子每天问自己“与朋友交而不信乎”,孔子说“无友不如己者”。这里收“友”“朋”两个字。
Each topic lists the chapters whose original text mentions it: chapters we have covered include our reading; others show the original only. Uncovered chapters will be added automatically once the full text is online.
- 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.
- 1.4Three things I examine myself on daily
曾子曰:吾日三省吾身:为人谋而不忠乎?与朋友交而不信乎?传不习乎?
When you act for someone, did you hold anything back? Today: a colleague asks you to look over a plan; you can't be bothered to point out the flaw and say “looks good”.
- 1.7Honouring the worthy over good looks
子夏曰:贤贤易色,事父母能竭其力,事君能致其身,与朋友交言而有信。虽曰未学,吾必谓之学矣。
Someone who never studied but does all this — Zixia says he has studied. Today: the elders who had only a few years of schooling.
- 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.
