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The Analects of Confucius

by Confucius (551–479 BCE)

19 chapters, about 18,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. CONFUCIAN ANALECTS. BOOK I. HSIO R. 500 words
2. BOOK II. WEI CHANG. 1,100 words
3. BOOK III. PA YIH. 1,000 words
4. BOOK IV. LE JIN. 900 words
5. BOOK V. KUNG-YE CH'ANG. 900 words
6. BOOK VI. YUNG YEY. 500 words
7. BOOK VII. SHU R. 1,000 words
8. BOOK VIII. T'AI-PO. 1,100 words
9. BOOK IX. TSZE HAN. 900 words
10. BOOK X. HEANG TANG. 900 words
11. BOOK XI. HSIEN TSIN. 1,000 words
12. BOOK XII. YEN YUAN. 1,300 words
13. BOOK XIII. TSZE-LU. 1,400 words
14. BOOK XIV. HSIEN WAN. 1,000 words
15. BOOK XV. WEI LING KUNG. 1,100 words
16. BOOK XVI. KE SHE. 500 words
17. BOOK XVII. YANG HO. 1,400 words
18. BOOK XIX. TSZE-CHANG. 1,000 words
19. BOOK XX. YAO YUEH. 300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ability
• Lu (state)

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