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To complement my little series on Shakespeare (like I’d know), there’s now a quorum of Confucius quotes:

• On not noticing the taste of meat for three months
• “When the rites are lost, seek throughout the countryside”
• On deliberate speech
• On Yangpu, Lunpu, and Lunyu
• Confucius enlisted by a stammering general to put down a heckler in the Romance of the three kingdoms
• “Confucius, Mencius, various dumpling shapes, I’ve studied them all!” (n.1 here)
• Criticizing Confucius

with the related

• Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi

and at a tangent,

• Confucius as football referee, and even
• Paul Kratochvil’s classic spectacles story.

See also my Daoist adaptation of “selling the Three-character scripture at the door of Confucius” (preaching to the converted, as we might say).