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Analects

noun
1.
A collection of excerpts from a literary work.  Synonym: analecta.






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"Analects" Quotes from Famous Books



... is an end to everything, even to the "Confucian Analects," and so there was also to this lovers' colloquy. For just as Jasmine was explaining, for the twentieth time, the origin and basis of her love for Tu, a waiter entered to announce the arrival ...
— Stories by English Authors: Orient • Various

... "Analects of Confucius" 4 and 5, where three kinds of "profitable friends" and three kinds of "profitable pleasures" are described; the third of the latter being ...
— More Translations from the Chinese • Various

... of which we shall now return. Courage was scarcely deemed worthy to be counted among virtues, unless it was exercised in the cause of Righteousness. In his "Analects" Confucius defines Courage by explaining, as is often his wont, what its negative is. "Perceiving what is right," he says, "and doing it not, argues lack of courage." Put this epigram into a positive ...
— Bushido, the Soul of Japan • Inazo Nitobe



Words linked to "Analects" :   extract, selection, excerpt, analecta, excerption



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