Books of the Analects are named after their opening words. Book 4 begins
子曰：
里仁为美 'The Master said: it is best to live among the humane', so it is called
里仁. Most of its sayings are about
仁 (humaneness) and the gentleman, among them
朝闻道，
夕死可矣 'if I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening'.
