Book II: Wei Chang · VII

VI

Mǎng Wû asked what filial piety was. The Master said, “Parents are anxious lest their children should be sick.”

VII

Tsze-yû asked what filial piety was. The Master said, “The filial piety of nowadays means the support of one’s parents. But dogs and horses likewise are able to do something in the way of support;—without reverence, what is there to distinguish the one support given from the other?”