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Tsze-hsia said, “My friend Chang can do things which are hard to be done, but yet he is not perfectly virtuous.”

The Analects Confucius 2004

Tsze-hsia! being governor of Chu-fu, asked about government.

The Analects Confucius 2004

Tsze-hsia said, “Mourning, having been carried to the utmost degree of grief, should stop with that.”

The Analects Confucius 2004

Tsze-hsia said, “There are learning extensively, and having a firm and sincere aim; inquiring with earnestness, and reflecting with self-application: - virtue is in such a course.”

The Analects Confucius 2004

Tsze-hsia said, “The mean man is sure to gloss his faults.”

The Analects Confucius 2004

Tsze-hsia said, “He, who from day to day recognizes what he has not yet, and from month to month does not forget what he has attained to, may be said indeed to love to learn.”

The Analects Confucius 2004

The Master said to Tsze-hsia, “Do you be a scholar after the style of the superior man, and not after that of the mean man.”

The Analects Confucius 2004

Tsze-hsia said, “When a person does not transgress the boundary line in the great virtues, he may pass and repass it in the small virtues.”

The Analects Confucius 2004

Mi-nyag had been the great Buddhist Tangut kingdom known as Hsi-hsia (Xixia) in Chinese.

A Brief History of Tsurpu Monastery 2003

Pa-hsia-li lied, the Big Barbarian lied, we all lied, but now we see our error; we tremble under the just wrath of your servant, Prince Sang, who has chastised us; dismay and fear spread through our ranks, our soldiers run crying away, our evil leaders cannot control them.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985