Skip to content

Stone Chimes

The Analects of Confucius

  • By Book
  • By Topic
  • By Person
  • Full Text PDF
  • Full Text EPUB

12.18

Ji Kangzi was troubled by the thieves in his state. He asked Confucius what he should do about it.

Confucius replied, “If you weren’t so greedy, your people wouldn’t steal, even if you offered them a reward for doing it.”

Share:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
Categories Book 12 Tags Confucius, Greed, Ji Kangzi, Moral Influence
Post navigation
12.17
12.19

Menu

  • By Book
  • By Topic
  • By Person
  • Full Text PDF
  • Full Text EPUB

Essays

  • The Analects and the Fluency Illusion
  • The Analects as a Twitter Feed
  • Confucius is (Almost) Always Talking to Someone

Links

  • Friends from Afar: A Confucianism Group
  • Confucian Weekly Bulletin
  • Bin Song on Huffington Post
  • Warp, Weft, and Way
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.