"Self-tormentor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Confucius taught that universal love for man, as man, which was instilled and exemplified by Jesus Christ. In translating Confucius they often make the same mistake that some have done who read in Terence's "Self-Tormentor" the line, "I am a man, and nothing human is foreign to me,"[29] and imagine that this is the sentiment of an enlightened Christian, although the context shows that it is only the boast of a busybody and parasite. What Confucius taught under the ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis |
