Chapter
1 1 | never has been a benevolent man who neglected his parents.
2 1 | never has been a righteous man who made his sovereign an
3 1 | this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then
4 1 | difference between killing a man with a stick and with a
5 1 | So he said, because that man made the semblances of men,
6 2 | aloft in the hall, when a man appeared, leading an ox
7 2 | Where is the ox going? The man replied, We are going to
8 2 | the place of death. The man answered, Shall we then
9 2 | sheep. So is the superior man affected towards animals,
10 2 | Mencius replied, 'Suppose a man were to make this statement
11 2 | the rule of a benevolent man?~21. 'Therefore an intelligent
12 3 | crime as if he had killed a man. -- Thus those forty square
13 3 | love small valour. If a man brandishes his sword, looks
14 3 | is the valour of a common man, who can be the opponent
15 3 | refractory wills?" There was one man pursuing a violent and disorderly
16 4 | about you say, -- "This is a man of talents and worth," you
17 4 | officers all say, -- "This is a man of talents and virtue,"
18 4 | people say, -- "This is a man of talents and virtue,"
19 4 | and when you find that the man is such, employ him. When
20 4 | about you say, -- "This man won't do," don't listen
21 4 | great officers say, -- "This man won't do," don't listen
22 4 | people all sav, -- "This man won't do," then examine
23 4 | and when you find that the man won't do, send him away.~
24 4 | about you say, -- "This man deserves death," don't listen
25 4 | great officers say, -- "This man deserves death," don't listen
26 4 | the people all say,"This man deserves death," then inquire
27 4 | and when you see that the man deserves death, put him
28 4 | for the purpose. Now, a man spends his youth in learning
29 4 | said, "He is a benevolent man. We must not lose him."
30 4 | first visit to a common man, is, I suppose, because
31 4 | because you think that he is a man of talents and virtue. By
32 4 | purpose.' Mencius said, 'A man's advancement is effected,
33 4 | others. But to advance a man or to stop his advance is
34 5 | You are indeed a true man of Ch'î. You know about
35 5 | Ch'î have a saying -- "A man may have wisdom and discernment,
36 5 | favourable opportunity. A man may have instruments of
37 5 | not receive from a common man in his loose large garments
38 5 | be in fear even of a poor man in his loose garments of
39 5 | instance now, in the case of a man falling or running, that
40 5 | and reason. Without it, man is in a state of starvation.~
41 5 | Let us not be like the man of Sung. There was a man
42 5 | man of Sung. There was a man of Sung, who was grieved
43 6 | commiseration is essential to man, that the feeling of shame
44 6 | dislike is essential to man, that the feeling of modesty
45 6 | complaisance is essential to man, and that the feeling of
46 6 | disapproving is essential to man.~5. 'The feeling of commiseration
47 6 | they will not suffice for a man to serve his parents with.'~
48 6 | of a neighbourhood. If a man, in selecting a residence,
49 6 | the quiet home in which man should awell. Since no one
50 6 | practise benevolence.~5. 'The man who would be benevolent
51 6 | attribute of the superior man greater than his helping
52 6 | court, nor speak with a bad man. To stand in a bad prince'
53 6 | or to speak with a bad man, would have been to him
54 6 | self-respect. The superior man will not manifest either
55 7 | their hearts they say, "This man is not fit to be spoken
56 7 | Shun. There is therefore no man of Ch'î who respects the
57 7 | occasion for money. To send a man a gift when he has no occasion
58 7 | possible that a superior man should be taken with a bribe?'~
59 7 | Here,' said Mencius, 'is a man who receives charge of the
60 8 | the natural feelings of a man, in preventing the earth
61 8 | heard that the superior man will not for all the world
62 8 | right to give Yen to another man, and Tsze-chih had no right
63 8 | one asks me -- "May this man be put to death?" I will
64 8 | him, saying, 'What kind of man was the duke of Châu?' '
65 8 | Chî-sun said, "A strange man was Tsze-shû Î. He pushed
66 8 | said, 'I am indeed a small man.'~1. When Mencius left Ch'
67 8 | you say -- "The superior man does not murmur against
68 9 | to him how the nature of man is good, and when speaking,
69 9 | They were men. I am a man. Why should I stand in awe
70 9 | Yüan said, "What kind of man was Shun? What kind of man
71 9 | man was Shun? What kind of man am I? He who exerts himself
72 9 | the rule of a benevolent man?~4. 'Therefore, a ruler
73 10| the duke Wan, saying, 'A man of a distant region, I have
74 10| 10. 'The imparting by a man to others of his wealth,
75 10| fidelity." The finding a man who shall benefit the kingdom,
76 10| give the throne to another man would be easy; to find a
77 10| would be easy; to find a man who shall benefit the kingdom
78 10| does Î really think that a man's affection for the child
79 10| filial son and virtuous man, in interring in a handsome
80 11| accustomed to drive for a mean man. I beg leave to decline
81 11| you are wrong. Never has a man who has bent himself been
82 11| At the capping of a young man, his father admonishes him.
83 11| characteristics constitute the great man.'~1. Châu Hsiâo asked Mencius,
84 11| urge why does a superior man make any difficulty about
85 11| may not be received from a man. If there be such a proper
86 11| from you. Here now is a man, who, at home, is filial,
87 11| the aim of the superior man in his practice of principles
88 11| Do you remunerate a man's intention, or do you remunerate
89 11| Mencius said, 'There is a man here, who breaks your tiles,
90 11| but to avenge a common man and woman."~4. 'When T'ang
91 12| he in that case employ a man of Ch'î as his tutor, or
92 12| Ch'î as his tutor, or a man of Ch'û?' 'He will employ
93 12| Ch'û?' 'He will employ a man of Ch'î to teach him,' said
94 12| Mencius went on, 'If but one man of Ch'î be teaching him,
95 12| spirit which the superior man nourishes may be known.'~
96 12| Mencius said, 'Here is a man, who every day appropriates
97 12| is not the way of a good man;" and he replies, "With
98 12| Mencius, 'Is not Ch'an Chung a man of true self-denying purity?
99 12| principles as Chung holds, a man must be an earthworm, and
100 13| in high stations. When a man destitute of benevolence
101 13| If a scholar or common man be not benevolent, be cannot
102 13| 1. Mencius said, 'If a man love others, and no responsive
103 13| ourselves in every point. When a man's person is correct, the
104 13| benevolent. This is like a man laying hold of a heated
105 13| water on itself."~4. 'A man must first despise himself,
106 13| the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his
107 14| what is difficult. If each man would love his parents and
108 14| sincerity in one's self: -- if a man do not understand what is
109 14| be sincere is the way of man.~3. Never has there been
110 14| people.'~2. 'Listen to a man's words and look at the
111 14| pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?'~
112 14| rule.' K'wan asked, 'If a man's sister-in-law be drowning,
113 14| government. It is only the great man who can rectify what is
114 15| died in Ming-t'iâo; -- a man near the wild tribes on
115 15| and died in Pî-ying; -- a man near the wild tribes on
116 15| they regard him as another man; when he regards them as
117 15| really righteous, the great man does not do.'~Mencius said, '
118 15| Mencius said,'The great man does not think beforehand
119 15| Mencius said, 'The superior man makes his advances in what
120 15| account that the superior man wishes to get hold of what
121 15| short time. So a superior man is ashamed of a reputation
122 15| Mencius said, 'That whereby man differs from the lower animals
123 15| people as he would on a man who was wounded, and he
124 16| hold my bow. I am a dead man!" At the same time he asked
125 16| Yin-kung T'o is an upright man, and the friends of his
126 16| passing her.~2. 'Though a man may be wicked, yet if he
127 16| That whereby the superior man is distinguished from other
128 16| propriety.~2. 'The benevolent man loves others. The man of
129 16| benevolent man loves others. The man of propriety shows respect
130 16| respected by them.~4. 'Here is a man, who treats me in a perverse
131 16| unreasonable manner. The superior man in such a case will turn
132 16| still the same. The superior man will again turn round on
133 16| repeated. On this the superior man says, "This is a man utterly
134 16| superior man says, "This is a man utterly lost indeed! Since
135 16| it is that the superior man has a life-long anxiety
136 16| He says, "Shun was a man, and I also am a man. But
137 16| was a man, and I also am a man. But Shun became an example
138 16| As to what the superior man would feel to be a calamity,
139 16| s calamity, the superior man does not account it a calamity.'~
140 16| the city, saying to the man in charge of the house, '
141 16| what the other did.'~1. A man of Ch'î had a wife and a
142 16| saying, 'When our good man goes out, he is sure to
143 16| will spy out where our good man goes.' Accordingly, she
144 16| In the view of a superior man, as to the ways by which
145 17| him, he felt like a poor man who has nowhere to turn
146 17| he burns within. But the man of great filial piety, to
147 17| marrying a wife, how ought a man to proceed?~He must inform
148 17| indeed as here expressed, no man ought to have illustrated
149 17| calls Tsze-ch'an a wise man? After I had cooked and
150 17| element!" Thus a superior man may be imposed on by what
151 17| guilty? Does a benevolent man really act thus? In the
152 17| Mencius replied, 'A benevolent man does not lay up anger, nor
153 17| brother had been a common man, could he have been said
154 17| the words of a superior man. They are the sayings of
155 18| sovereign can present a man to Heaven, but he cannot
156 18| cannot make Heaven give that man the throne. A prince can
157 18| A prince can present a man to the sovereign, but he
158 18| the sovereign to make that man a prince. A great officer
159 18| great officer can present a man to his prince, but he cannot
160 18| the prince to make that man a great officer. Yâo presented
161 18| years; -- this was more than man could have done, and was
162 18| that Ch'î was able, as a man of talents and virtue, reverently
163 18| not be brought about by man. That which is done without
164 18| That which is done without man's doing is from Heaven.
165 18| That which happens without man's causing is from the ordinance
166 18| however, the dress of a common man, and passed by Sung. At
167 18| things.~2. 'Pâi-lî Hsî was a man of Yü. The people of Tsin,
168 18| this, if he had not been a man of talents and virtue? As
169 18| and shall we say that a man of talents and virtue did
170 19| relatives. Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue,
171 19| friendship with a private man.~6. Respect shown by inferiors
172 19| gifts, then the superior man receives them. I venture
173 20| professes to be pleased with a man of talents and virtue, and
174 20| wishes to support a superior man, must proceed, that he may
175 20| way to support a superior man.~6. 'There was Yâo's conduct
176 20| both cases he is a common man, and it is the rule of propriety
177 20| Chang said, 'If a common man is called to perform any
178 20| With a skin cap. A common man should be summoned with
179 20| presume to go. If a common man were summoned with the article
180 20| this refusal to go, when a man of talents and virtue is
181 20| a prince wishes to see a man of talents and virtue, and
182 20| it is only the superior man who can follow this way,
183 21| The philosopher Kâo said, 'Man's nature is like the ch'
184 21| and righteousness out of man's nature is like the making
185 21| The philosopher Kâo said, 'Man's nature is like water whirling
186 21| it will flow to the west. Man's nature is indifferent
187 21| or down? The tendency of man's nature to good is like
188 21| ox like the nature of a man?'~1. The philosopher Kâo
189 21| He replied, 'There is a man older than I, and I give
190 21| as when there is a white man, and I consider him white;
191 21| our pronouncing a white man to be white. But is there
192 21| acknowledge the age of an old man? And what is it which is
193 21| righteousness? -- the fact of a man's being old? or the fact
194 21| the younger brother of a man of Ch'in I do not love:
195 21| I give honour to an old man of Ch'û, and I also give
196 21| also give honour to an old man of my own people: that is,
197 21| enjoyment of meat roasted by a man of Ch'in does not differ
198 21| The philosopher Kâo says, "Man's nature is neither good
199 21| nor bad."~2. 'Some say, "Man's nature may be made to
200 21| different ways in which man has performed his business
201 21| should we doubt in regard to man, as if he were a solitary
202 21| scholar Lung said, "If a man make hempen sandals without
203 21| of Tsze-tû, there is no man but would recognise that
204 21| what properly belongs to man; -- shall it be said that
205 21| said that the mind of any man was without benevolence
206 21| righteousness? The way in which a man loses his proper goodness
207 22| his will bent, to it, a man cannot succeed at it. Chess
208 22| If among the things which man likes there were nothing
209 22| If among the things which man dislikes there were nothing
210 22| take them.~7. 'And yet a man will accept of ten thousand
211 22| Mencius said, 'Benevolence is man's mind, and righteousness
212 22| mind, and righteousness is man's path.~2. 'How lamentable
213 22| Mencius said, 'Here is a man whose fourth finger is bent
214 22| other people.~2. 'When a man's finger is not like those
215 22| part of himself which a man does not love, and as he
216 22| belonging to him is a little man, and he who nourishes the
217 22| nourishes the great is a great man.~3. 'Here is a plantation-keeper,
218 22| that he is doing so, is a man who resembles a hurried
219 22| resembles a hurried wolf.~5. 'A man who only eats and drinks
220 22| what is great.~6. 'If a man, fond of his eating and
221 22| Heaven has given to us. Let a man first stand fast in the
222 22| this which makes the great man.'~1. Mencius said, 'There
223 22| and there is a nobility of man. Benevolence, righteousness,
224 22| constitutes the nobility of man.~2. 'The men of antiquity
225 22| Heaven, and the nobility of man came to them in its train.~
226 22| seek for the nobility of man, and when they have obtained
227 22| must lose that nobility of man as well.'~2. 'The honour
228 23| Chapter 23~1. A man of Zan asked the disciple
229 23| more important.'~3. The man pursued, 'If the result
230 23| person to meet his wife a man cannot get married, while
231 23| acting as such. Here is a man, whose strength was not
232 23| duckling: -- he was then a man of no strength. But to-day
233 23| catties' weight," and he is a man of strength. And so, he
234 23| another Wû Hwo. Why should a man make a want of ability the
235 23| brother. Now, is it what a man cannot do -- to walk slowly?
236 23| ân is the ode of a little man."' Mencius asked, 'Why did
237 23| with the ode! There is a man here, and a native of Yüeh
238 23| bending his bow to shoot the man, then I will advise him
239 23| without. I have never seen the man who could do the deeds of
240 23| the conduct of a superior man.'~
241 24| the other, a benevolent man would not do it; -- how
242 24| way in which a superior man serves his prince contemplates
243 24| water, and what a benevolent man detests. You are wrong,
244 24| âu asked, 'Is Yo-chang a man of vigour?' and was answered, '
245 24| not sleep?'~4. 'He is a man who loves what is good.'~
246 24| was that of the superior man who had nothing to eat,
247 24| confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his
248 25| death nor long life causes a man any double-mindedness, but
249 25| appointment for everything. A man should receive submissively
250 25| Mencius said, 'Add to a man the families of Han and
251 25| Wherever the superior man passes through, transformation
252 25| delight.~5. 'The superior man has three things in which
253 25| desired by the superior man, but what he delights in
254 25| four seas; -- the superior man delights in this, but the
255 25| his nature to the superior man cannot be increased by the
256 25| his nature to the superior man are benevolence, righteousness,
257 25| fire, yet if you knock at a man's door in the dusk of the
258 25| water and fire, there is no man who will not give them,
259 26| injured by them.~2. 'If a man can prevent the evils of
260 26| other men.'~Mencius said, 'A man with definite aims to be
261 26| replied, 'When a superior man resides in a country, if
262 26| the business of a great man is complete.'~Mencius said, '
263 26| people believe in him, as a man of the highest worth. But
264 26| rice or a plate of soup. A man can have no greater crimes
265 26| it be allowed to give a man credit for the great excellences
266 26| if Kû-sâu had murdered a man, what would have been done
267 26| reality of them, a superior man may not be retained by such
268 26| Heaven-conferred nature. But a man must be a sage before he
269 26| ways in which the superior man effects his teaching.~2. '
270 26| methods in which the superior man effects his teaching.'~1.
271 26| the bow.~3. 'The superior man draws the bow, but does
272 26| creatures, the superior man is kind to them, but not
273 26| acts of kindness to every man, but they earnestly cultivated
274 27| believe.~3. '"The benevolent man has no enemy under heaven.
275 27| carriage-maker may give a man the circle and square, but
276 27| consequences of killing a man's near relations. When a
277 27| s near relations. When a man kills another's father,
278 27| kill his father; when a man kills another's elder brother,
279 27| violence.'~Mencius said, 'If a man himself do not walk in the
280 27| complete.'~Mencius said, 'A man who loves fame may be able
281 27| if he be not really the man to do such a thing, it will
282 27| reason why the superior man was reduced to straits between
283 27| like Fang Fû. There was a man of that name in Tsin, famous
284 28| with them, and the superior man does not say of his pursuit
285 28| nature for them. The superior man does not say, in reference
286 28| asked, saying, 'What sort of man is Yo-chang?' Mencius replied, '
287 28| Mencius replied, 'He is a good man, a real man.'~2. 'What do
288 28| He is a good man, a real man.'~2. 'What do you mean by "
289 28| What do you mean by "A good man," "A real man?"'~3. The
290 28| by "A good man," "A real man?"'~3. The reply was, 'A
291 28| 3. The reply was, 'A man who commands our liking
292 28| is what is called a good man.~4. 'He whose goodness is
293 28| himself is what is called real man.~5. 'He whose goodness has
294 28| what is called beautiful man.~6. He whose completed goodness
295 28| is what is called a great man.~7. 'When this great man
296 28| man.~7. 'When this great man exercises a transforming
297 28| Mencius said, 'He is a dead man, that Pan-ch'ang Kwo!' Pan-chang
298 28| Mencius replied, 'He was a man, who had a little ability,
299 28| doctrines of the superior man. He was just qualified to
300 28| pilfer the sandal?' The man said, 'I apprehend not.
301 28| be the result.~2. 'If a man can give full development
302 28| The words of the superior man do not go below the girdle,
303 28| principle which the superior man holds is that of personal
304 28| right.~3. 'The superior man performs the law of right,
305 28| the desires few. Here is a man whose desires are few: --
306 28| they will be few. Here is a man whose desires are many: --
307 28| virtuous."~13. 'The superior man seeks simply to bring back
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