A Father’s Love, A Master’s Restraint: “The Fault is Not Mine”

By / / disciples, emotion, father and son, funeral, responsibility, ritual, sentiment, The Analects, Xian Jin XI, Xian Jin XI Chapter 11, Yan Hui
Confucius said: “Hui treated me as a father, yet I could not treat him as a son. The fault lies not with me, but with you, my disciples.”

Hui behaved towards me as his father. I have not been able to treat him as my son. The fault is not mine; it belongs to you, O disciples.

回也视予犹父也，予不得视犹子也。非我也，夫二三子也。

Source: The Analects, Xian Jin XI, Chapter 11

Author: Confucius

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