The main figure notes that he is a transmitter and not a maker, and we are told that he never sang on the same day as he wept. He also claims that a man who can bear to support eight rows of mimes can bear to do anything, and admonishes a detractor of animal sacrifice to love the ceremony, not the sheep. In book 11 he reminds us that "to go beyond is as wrong as to fall short", but his followers chide him for excessive mourning over the death of one of their number. Book 2, in which the speaker claims to have learned the decrees of heaven by age fifty thanks to bending
The main figure notes that he is a transmitter and not a maker, and we are told that he never sang on the same day as he wept. He also claims that a man who can bear to support eight rows of mimes can bear to do anything, and admonishes a detractor of animal sacrifice to love the ceremony, not the sheep. In book 11 he reminds us that "to go beyond is as wrong as to fall short", but his followers chide him for excessive mourning over the death of one of their number. Book 2, in which the speaker claims to have learned the decrees of heaven by age fifty thanks to bending his mind to study at age fifteen, is concerned with government, and the final book begins with an admonishment to "hold fast the due Mean" from the mythical emperor Yao. For 10 points, name this collection of sayings dating from the Spring and Autumn period, the foremost work of Confucianism.
The main figure notes that he is a transmitter and not a maker, and we are told that he never sang on the same day as he wept.
Analects [or Lunyu]