The teacher answered differently every time
The Analects
The most read questions and answers of the last 2,500 years. To the same question the teacher gave a different answer each time.
📜 The same names keep coming back? Start with the cast
See the cast → 10 figures, grouped into the teacher, the disciples, and the rulers who came with questions. Pick anyone and jump straight to the chapters they appear in.
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1. To Learn and Keep Practising
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2. Clever Words and a Fine Face
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3. From Fifteen to Seventy
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4. Learning and Thinking
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5. What You Can Say You Know
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6. The Painting Comes After
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7. If You Hear the Way in the Morning
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8. Is Ren Far Away
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9. Conquering Yourself and Returning to Li
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10. One Word for a Lifetime
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11. If I Want to Stand
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12. Harmony Without Sameness
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13. Hear One and Know Ten
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14. A Bowl of Rice and a Gourd of Water
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15. Bare-Handed Against a Tiger
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16. Same Question, Different Answers
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17. You Are a Vessel
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18. The Disciple Who Slept by Day
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19. My Strength Is Not Enough
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20. The Load Is Heavy and the Road Is Long
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21. Setting Names Right
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22. The North Star Stays Where It Is
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23. The Last Thing to Give Up
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24. The Wind and the Grass
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25. The Upright Man Who Bore Witness
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26. Hurry and You Will Not Arrive
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27. To Punish Without Having Taught
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28. Raise the Straight Above the Crooked
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29. A Dog from a House of Mourning
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30. Heaven Gave Me This De
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31. Between Chen and Cai
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32. The Men at the Plough
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33. Phoenix, O Phoenix
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34. The Man Who Knows It Cannot Be Done
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35. Heaven Is Destroying Me
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36. The Cap Strings of Zilu
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37. What Does Heaven Say
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38. Is Mount Tai Falling
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39. The Wall of the Master
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40. Back to the First Sentence