孟子
Mecius said to Wan Chang: "The best Gentleman of a village is in a position to make friends with the best Gentlemen in other villages; the best Gentleman in a state, with the best Gentlemen in other states; and the best Gentleman in the Empire, with the best Gentlemen in the Empire. And not content with making friends with the best Gentlemen in the Empire, he goes back in time and communes with the ancients. When one reads the poems and writings of the ancients, can it be right not to know something about them as men? Hence one tries to understand the age in which they lived. This can be described as 'looking for friends in history'".
[Trans. D.C. Lau, Mencius (Penguin Classics, 1970), quoted in Stephen C. Soong, ed. Song Without Music: Chinese Tz'u Poetry (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1980), p. 121]
I do love me some Mengzi. I plan on digging the Chinese up later; I don't know why I didn't buy any before I left Taiwan (Mengzi, I mean, not Chinese books in general which I happen to have an *astonishing* backlog of).
[Trans. D.C. Lau, Mencius (Penguin Classics, 1970), quoted in Stephen C. Soong, ed. Song Without Music: Chinese Tz'u Poetry (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1980), p. 121]
I do love me some Mengzi. I plan on digging the Chinese up later; I don't know why I didn't buy any before I left Taiwan (Mengzi, I mean, not Chinese books in general which I happen to have an *astonishing* backlog of).