The Analect

The Analect

Confucius

            “Once the master remarked, “I have conversed with Hwui the whole day long, and he has controverter nothing that I have said, as if he were without his wits. But when his back was turned, and I looked attentively at his conduct apart from me, I found it satisfactorily in all its issues. No, indeed! Hwui is not without his wits.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:

1) Who are the characters in the analect?

2) Explain the last sentence of the analect.

3) What kind of man is Hwui? Why?

4) What important lesson can we get from the analect?

5) Give another instances that a person is judge according to his actions.