Translation of Gongye’s Long Story No. 5 (26)

Yan Yuan and Zi Lu stood beside Confucius. Confucius said: "Why don't you each talk about your ambitions?" Zilu said: "You are willing to take out your own carriages, horses, clothes, and fur robes to use with my friends, and you will not complain when they are worn out." Yan Yuan Said: "I am willing not to boast about my strengths or express my merits." Zilu said to Confucius: "I am willing to listen to your aspirations." Confucius said: "(My ambition is) to make the elderly feel at ease and to make friends We trust me and let the young people be cared for