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Translation of Mencius' Quotations
Mencius' famous saying

(1) If you don't follow the rules, you can't be Fiona Fang.

Without compasses and rulers, squares and circles cannot be drawn correctly.

(2) Correct, then weight; Degree, then know the length.

Only when translation has weight can we know the weight; Measure it and you'll know the length.

(3) People can do something without doing it, and then they can do something.

People can only make a difference if they don't do it.

(4) Although there are things that are easy to live in the world, if it is violent for one day and cold for ten days, no one can live.

Even if there is a plant that grows most easily, if it is dried for one day and frozen for ten days, nothing can grow again.

(5) sharp is slow.

People who advance too hard will retreat too fast.

(6) the official of the heart, what you think, what you get. Not without thinking.

The organ function of the heart lies in thinking, which can be obtained only by thinking, but can not be obtained without thinking.

(7) Born in sorrow, died in happiness.

Sadness and injury are enough to make people live, and comfort and happiness are enough to make people die.

(8) Only the benevolent should occupy high positions. Being unkind and in a high position is to spread its evil to the public.

Only virtuous and kind people should be in the leading position. If an immoral person with low morality is in a dominant position, he will spread his sins to the masses.

(9) The son of heaven is ruthless and does not care about the four seas; The princes are heartless and do not protect the country; Doctor Qing is ruthless and does not protect the ancestral temple; Shu Ren is heartless. He didn't protect his four bodies.

If the son of heaven cannot be kind, he cannot keep his world; If the princes are unkind, they will lose their country; Qing and the doctor can't be good, so they can't keep his ancestral temple; Ordinary people can't be kind, so they can't keep fit.

(10) The monarch is kind and invincible.

The king of a country loves benevolence, and the world is invincible.

(1 1) save punishment, collect taxes thinly, and cultivate deeply easily (N U).

Reduce punishment and taxes, let people work hard and get rid of dirty grass early.

(12) The benevolent is invincible.

The benevolent is invincible in the world.

(13) A five-acre house can be made of mulberry trees, and fifty people can wear clothes and silk. Chickens, dolphins and dogs are all domestic animals, so there is no time to waste. Seventy people can eat meat. One hundred acres of land, if you don't hurry, a family of eight can be hungry. I sincerely hope that the godson of the cult will be filial, and the winners will not be on the road.

Each family gives him five acres of land, surrounded by mulberry trees, and people over 50 can have silk cotton-padded jackets to wear. Domestic animals such as chickens, dogs and pigs have the strength to feed and reproduce, and people over 70 years old will have meat to eat. The family gave him 100 acres of land, and without interfering with his production, a family of eight could eat enough. Run schools at all levels well and enlighten them repeatedly with the principle of filial piety and love for brothers. Then, the old man with gray hair will be helped by others, and he will not walk on the road with his head up and things on his back.

(14) Easy land, thin tax, people can get rich.

Doing a good job in agriculture and reducing taxes can make people rich.

(15) Ren Jun showed no mercy; Junyi, all righteousness; Jun Zheng, Mo Zheng.

The monarch is kind, and no one is unkind; Monarchism, no one is unjust; The monarch is right and no one is wrong.

(16) People are happy when they are happy; People have their worries, and people have their worries.

Those who take the pleasure of the people as their own pleasure will also take the pleasure of the monarch as their own pleasure; Those who take the worries of the people as their own worries, the people will also take the worries of the monarch as their own worries.

(17) Benevolence is glory, but unkindness is humiliation.

When princes and ministers practice benevolent government, there will be glory; If you behave inhumanely, you will be humiliated.

(18) Those who have a constant birth have perseverance, and those who have no constant birth have no perseverance. Without perseverance, you will do whatever you want.

People with certain industrial income have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct, while people without certain industrial income will not have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct. If there is no certain moral concept and code of conduct, you will run amok, violate the law and discipline, and do anything.

(19) scramble for land to kill people; Fighting for the city, killing people and taking the city, this so-called cannibalism, is unforgivable.

Fighting for land and killing people everywhere; Fighting for the city, killing people all over the city, is that the territory eats human flesh, and the death penalty is not enough to atone for its crimes.

(20) If you are a minister like a brother, then I regard you as my heart; If you treat me like a dog or a horse, then I will treat you like a Chinese; If you treat me like dirt, then I treat you like an enemy.

The monarch regards his deputies as his brothers and sisters, and his deputies will also regard the monarch as their confidant; The monarch regards his lieutenants as cattle and horses, and his lieutenants will also regard the monarch as ordinary people they meet on the road; The monarch regards his subordinates as dirt or weeds, and his subordinates will also regard the monarch as an enemy.

(2 1) Fish, what I want, bear's paw also wants; You can't have your cake and eat it. You can't have your cake and eat it. Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want; You can't have both, and you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness.

Fish is my favorite food, and so is bear's paw. If I can't eat both, I will throw away the fish and eat the bear's paw. Life is what I love, righteousness is what I love; If I can't have both, I will sacrifice my life for justice.

(22) I am old, and people are old; Young people, young people, young people.

Respect my elders, thus extending to respect others' elders; Take care of your younger generation, thus extending to the younger generation who care about others.

(23) Those who gain the Tao will help more, while those who lose the Tao will help less. If you help less, your relatives will help, and if you help more, the world will be smooth.

Many people help those who are kind, but few people help those who are unkind. Even his relatives opposed him when there were very few people who helped him; When so many people helped him, the whole world turned to him.

(24) the weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as people.

Opportunities vouchsafed by Heaven are outmatched by terrestrial advantages, which in turn are outmatched by the harmony among people.

Killing an innocent person is neither benevolence nor righteousness.

It is unkind to kill an innocent person; It's unfair to get it when you don't have it.

(26) A benevolent thief is called a "thief" and a righteous thief is called a "remnant". The remnant thief is called "Lady". Never heard of killing, never heard of killing the king.

Those who destroy kindness are called "thieves" and those who destroy morality are called "disabled people". We call such a person a "single husband". I only heard that Zhou Wuwang killed her husband Yin Zhou, but I never heard that he killed his minister, the monarch.

(27) The sage reigns and the Almighty reigns.

Make virtuous people occupy considerable official positions, and talented people occupy certain positions.

(28) Respect the sages, and Jie Jun reigns.

Respect moral people, use capable people, and excellent people have official positions.

(29) the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light.

People are the most important, followed by Tugu God, who represents the country and the monarch is the least.

(30) Civil affairs is urgent.

Caring for the people is the most urgent task.

(3 1) Five grains can't be threshed unless the farming season is reversed. If you don't go into Wu's pool, fish and turtles can't fight for food. Axe gold gets into the mountain in time, and mywood can't be used. Grains, fish and turtles can't be eaten, and mumu can't be used, which makes the people lose their lives and have no regrets.

Don't recruit corvees in the busy season of farmers' cultivation and harvesting, which will hinder production, so the grain produced will be inexhaustible. Don't fish in a big pond with a fine net, as there will be endless fish. Cut down the trees on the mountain in time, and the wood will be inexhaustible. Food and fish can't be eaten up, and wood can't be used up, so that the people will not be dissatisfied with life, raising and burial.

(32) There is fat meat in the barn and fat horses in the stable, which makes all animals eat each other.

Now you have lean meat in your kitchen and strong horses in your stable, but the people are hungry, and the starved bodies are lying in the wild, which is equivalent to the superior people leading the animals to eat people.

(33) lose the world and lose the person; If you lose the people, you lose your heart. There is a saying in the world: whoever gets you gets the whole world; There is a way to win the people: win their hearts and win the people; There is a way to get the heart: use it to gather what you want, and if you don't do evil, you will.

Jie and Zhou lost the world because they lost the support of the people; They lost the support of the people because they lost the hearts of the people. Those who win the world have a way: those who win the hearts of the people win the world; There is a way to win the support of the people: if you win the hearts of the people, you win the support of the people; The ways to win people's hearts are: accumulate what they want for them; Don't put things they hate on your head, that's all.

If a wise monarch controls the people's property, he will be able to support his parents and his wife, so that he can live a happy life and avoid dying in a bad year.

A wise monarch, when defining the property of the people, must ensure that they can adopt their parents in the upper class and raise their wives and children in the lower class, so that they can have plenty of food and clothing in good years and will not starve to death in famine years.

(35) Keeping the people king is irresistible.

All efforts are made to make people's lives stable, so that the world can be unified and no one can stop it.

(36) Treasures of governors: land, people and government, and those who cherish pearls and jade will be affected.

Governors have three treasures: land, people and politics. Those who cherish pearls and jewels are bound to get hurt.

(37) Heaven came to man, and he was a teacher for you, but he said it was to help God spoil it.

People born in the sky also gave birth to monarchs and masters for them. The only responsibility of these monarchs and masters is to help God take care of the people.

Everyone can think of Yao and Shun.

Everyone can be a good person like Yao Shun.

(39) A wife will insult herself, and then others will insult her; The family will destroy itself, and then people will be destroyed; The country will cut itself, and then the people will cut themselves.

People will insult themselves before others insult them; Families must have self-destructive factors before people are destroyed, and countries must have self-destructive reasons before people are punished.

(40) Those who seek their own happiness and misfortune.

No disaster or happiness is not found by yourself.

(4 1) A gentleman does not complain about heaven, but a villain treats himself.

A gentleman doesn't complain about heaven or people.

(42) Riches and riches can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and powerful people can't be bent. This is called a gentleman.

Wealth can't disturb my heart, poverty can't change my mind, and power can't bend my integrity. This is called a gentleman.

(43) People who give up on themselves should not talk to others; Give up on yourself, and do nothing.

A person who hurts himself can't talk to him about valuable words; A person who gives up on himself (is extremely irresponsible to himself) can't make a valuable career with him.

(44) nourishing the heart is not good at lust.

The best way to cultivate one's self-cultivation is to reduce material desires.

(45) say that adults are reserved, don't look.

If you persuade a vassal, you should despise him, and don't look down on his lofty position.

(46) Therefore, heaven will descend to a great post, and people must first suffer their minds, their bones and muscles, starve their bodies and skins, empty their hearts, and mess with their actions. Therefore, patience has benefited them a lot.

Life will put a heavy responsibility on a person, so first of all, we should worry about his mind, work hard on his bones and muscles, starve his stomach and poor his body, and his every behavior is always unsatisfactory, so as to shake his mind, temper his temperament and increase his ability.

(47) Respect people and don't insult others; frugal people don't rob people.

A respectful person will not insult others, and a thrifty person will not rob others.

(48) Those who love others will always love others; People who respect others will always respect others.

People who love others will be loved by others; People who respect others will be respected by others.

(49) Do not hold long, expensive, brothers and friends.

When you make friends, you don't depend on your age, your status or your brother's wealth. (50) Sages make people shine with their brilliance, and today they make people shine with their fatuity.

A talented person must understand it first, and then let others understand it; People today are still confused but insist on making people understand.

(5 1) The age is rich, and the children are more dependent; If you are fierce, your children will be violent. This is not a pie that fell from the sky, but it is also very unusual. The reason why you are trapped in your heart is natural.

Young people tend to be lazy when the harvest is good. After the famine, young people often show violence, not because of different natural qualifications, but because the environment has made their hearts worse.

(52) A promising person digs a well. Digging a well for nine days is not as good as digging a spring, but he still abandons the well.

Doing one thing is like digging a well. If the well is dug six or seven feet deep and there is no spring water, it is still an abandoned well.

(53) A gentleman has three pleasures, and the king of the world does not exist. Parents are there, and brothers are happy for no reason; Yang is worthy of the sky, regardless of people, but also happy; It is three pleasures to be educated by talents in the world.

A gentleman has three pleasures, and serving the world with virtue is not one of them. Parents' health and brothers' safety are the first kind of fun. Looking up is worthy of the sky, bowing down is worthy of people, which is the second kind of fun; Getting the best talents in the world and educating them is the third greatest pleasure.

If you are not ashamed, if you are not human, if you are human?

I'm not ashamed of not being able to catch up with others. How can we catch up with others?

(55) If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are good, you will help the world.

If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you succeed, you will help the world.

(56) Poets don't harm words with words, and they don't harm their ambitions with words. Against your will, in order to get it.

A translator should not be confined to words and misunderstand them, nor should he be confined to words and misunderstand the original intention. It is right to infer the author's original intention with his own personal experience.

(57) It is better to have a book than a book.

Believe in books completely, it is better to have no original works;

Mencius said, "Benevolence is better than goodness, and water is better than fire. Today, if you are kind, you will still save a car with a glass of water. If you don't let it out, you will say that water is invincible. The same is true of ruthless people, and eventually they will die. "

Translation:

Mencius said, "Benevolence can overcome badness, and water can overcome fire." . Now, some benevolent people are like dousing a fire lit by firewood with a glass of water; If the fire doesn't go out, say that water can't win the fire. Instead, it encourages the most heartless person, and his original kindness will eventually disappear. "

Original text:

Mencius said, "Those who grow grains are also beautiful. If you are unfamiliar, it is better to plant it. " . Fu Ren also cares about familiarity. "

Translation:

Mencius said: "Grain is an excellent variety of crops, but if it is immature, it is not as good as weeds such as barnyard grass." Benevolence is also to make it mature. "

【 Note 】 ① tí: namely barnyard grass and barnyard grass plants.

Original text:

Mencius said: "When the rooster crows, it is bred as a good person, and it is also obedient; When chickens crow, people who breed for profit will also be people who eat. To know the difference between shun and sole, there is nothing else, but also the difference between benefit and goodness. "

translate

Mencius said: "As soon as a rooster crows, he gets up and works tirelessly to do good, which is a kind of person." Get up when the cock crows, and constantly seek profit. He is a kind of person. I want to know the difference between obedience and wisdom, which is nothing more than the difference between doing good and seeking profit.