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The Analects : Wei Zheng - Chinese Text Project
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《為政いせい - Wei Zheng》

English translation: James Legge [?]
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1 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「為政いせい以德，譬たとえ如北辰たつ，居きょ其所而眾星ほし共之ともゆき。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."

2 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「詩し三さん百ひゃく，一言ひとこと以蔽之の，曰『思おもえ無む邪よこしま』。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "In the Book of Poetry are three hundred pieces, but the design of them all may be embraced in one sentence - 'Having no depraved thoughts.'"

3 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「道之みちゆき以政，齊ひとし之これ以刑，民みん免めん而無恥はじ；道どう之の以德，齊ひとし之これ以禮，有ゆう恥はじ且格。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good."

4 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「吾われ十有五而志于學，三さん十じゅう而立じりつ，四よん十じゅう而不惑ふわく，五ご十じゅう而知天命てんめい，六ろく十じゅう而耳順じゅん，七なな十じゅう而從心しん所しょ欲よく，不ふ踰矩。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right."

5 為政いせい:
孟はじめ懿子問とい孝こう。子こ曰：「無む違たがえ。」樊遲御ご，子し告つげ之の曰：「孟はじめ孫まご問とい孝こう於我，我わが對たい曰『無む違たがえ』。」樊遲曰：「何なに謂いい也？」子こ曰：「生なま事こと之の以禮；死し葬そう之の以禮，祭さい之の以禮。」
Wei Zheng:
Meng Yi asked what filial piety was. The Master said, "It is not being disobedient." Soon after, as Fan Chi was driving him, the Master told him, saying, "Meng-sun asked me what filial piety was, and I answered him, - 'not being disobedient.'" Fan Chi said, "What did you mean?" The Master replied, "That parents, when alive, be served according to propriety; that, when dead, they should be buried according to propriety; and that they should be sacrificed to according to propriety."

6 為政いせい:
孟はじめ武たけ伯はく問とい孝こう。子こ曰：「父母ちちはは唯ただ其疾之の憂う。」
Wei Zheng:
Meng Wu asked what filial piety was. The Master said, "Parents are anxious lest their children should be sick."

7 為政いせい:
子こ游ゆう問とい孝こう。子こ曰：「今いま之孝ゆきたか者しゃ，是ぜ謂いい能のう養やしなえ。至いたり於犬馬ば，皆みな能のう有ゆう養やしなえ；不敬ふけい，何なに以別乎？」
Wei Zheng:
Zi You asked what filial piety was. The Master said, "The filial piety nowadays means the support of one's parents. But dogs and horses likewise are able to do something in the way of support; - without reverence, what is there to distinguish the one support given from the other?"

8 為政いせい:
子こ夏なつ問とい孝こう。子こ曰：「色いろ難なん。有事ゆうじ弟子でし服ふく其勞，有ゆう酒食しゅしょく先生せんせい饌，曾是以為孝こう乎？」
Wei Zheng:
Zi Xia asked what filial piety was. The Master said, "The difficulty is with the countenance. If, when their elders have any troublesome affairs, the young take the toil of them, and if, when the young have wine and food, they set them before their elders, is THIS to be considered filial piety?"

9 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「吾われ與あずか回かい言げん終日しゅうじつ，不ふ違たがえ如愚。退すさ而省其私，亦また足あし以發。回かい也，不ふ愚ぐ。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "I have talked with Hui for a whole day, and he has not made any objection to anything I said - as if he were stupid. He has retired, and I have examined his conduct when away from me, and found him able to illustrate my teachings. Hui! - He is not stupid."

10 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「視み其所以ゆえん，觀かん其所由しょゆう，察其所しょ安やす。人ひと焉廋哉？人ひと焉廋哉？」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "See what a man does. Mark his motives. Examine in what things he rests. How can a man conceal his character? How can a man conceal his character?"

11 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「溫あつし故こ而知新しん，可か以為師し矣。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."

12 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「君子くんし不ふ器うつわ。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "The accomplished scholar is not a utensil."

13 為政いせい:
子こ貢みつぎ問とい君子くんし。子こ曰：「先行せんこう其言，而後從したがえ之これ。」
Wei Zheng:
Zi Gong asked what constituted the superior man. The Master said, "He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions."

14 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「君子くんし周しゅう而不比ひ，小人こども比ひ而不周しゅう。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "The superior man is catholic and not partisan. The mean man is partisan and not catholic."

15 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「學がく而不思おもえ則そく罔，思おもえ而不學則がくそく殆。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

16 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「攻おさむ乎異端はし，斯害也已！」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"

17 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「由ゆかり！誨女知之ともゆき乎？知之ともゆき為ため知之ともゆき，不知ふち為ため不知ふち，是ぜ知也ともや。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "You, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."

18 為政いせい:
子こ張ちょう學まなぶ干ひ祿ろく。子こ曰：「多聞たもん闕疑，慎まき言げん其餘，則のり寡尤；多た見み闕殆，慎まき行こう其餘，則のり寡悔。言げん寡尤，行ぎょう寡悔，祿ろく在ざい其中矣。」
Wei Zheng:
Zi Zhang was learning with a view to official emolument. The Master said, "Hear much and put aside the points of which you stand in doubt, while you speak cautiously at the same time of the others - then you will afford few occasions for blame. See much and put aside the things which seem perilous, while you are cautious at the same time in carrying the others into practice - then you will have few occasions for repentance. When one gives few occasions for blame in his words, and few occasions for repentance in his conduct, he is in the way to get emolument."

19 為政いせい:
哀あい公こう問とい曰：「何なに為ため則のり民みん服ふく？」孔子こうし對たい曰：「舉直錯諸枉，則のり民みん服ふく；舉枉錯諸直じき，則のり民みん不服ふふく。」
Wei Zheng:
The Duke Ai asked, saying, "What should be done in order to secure the submission of the people?" Confucius replied, "Advance the upright and set aside the crooked, then the people will submit. Advance the crooked and set aside the upright, then the people will not submit."

20 為政いせい:
季き康子やすこ問とい：「使つかい民みん敬けい、忠ちゅう以勸，如之何なに？」子こ曰：「臨之以莊則そく敬けい，孝こう慈則忠ちゅう，舉善而教不能ふのう，則のり勸すすむ。」
Wei Zheng:
Ji Kang asked how to cause the people to reverence their ruler, to be faithful to him, and to go on to nerve themselves to virtue. The Master said, "Let him preside over them with gravity; then they will reverence him. Let him be final and kind to all; then they will be faithful to him. Let him advance the good and teach the incompetent; then they will eagerly seek to be virtuous."

21 為政いせい:
或ある謂いい孔子こうし曰：「子こ奚不為政いせい？」子こ曰：「《書しょ》云うん：『孝こう乎惟孝こう、友とも于兄弟きょうだい，施ほどこせ於有政せい。』是これ亦また為政いせい，奚其為ため為政いせい？」
Wei Zheng:
Some one addressed Confucius, saying, "Sir, why are you not engaged in the government?" The Master said, "What does the Shu Jing say of filial piety? - 'You are filial, you discharge your brotherly duties. These qualities are displayed in government.' This then also constitutes the exercise of government. Why must there be THAT - making one be in the government?"

22 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「人ひと而無信しんじ，不知ふち其可也かなり。大だい車くるま無む輗，小車おぐるま無む軏，其何以行之の哉？」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "I do not know how a man without truthfulness is to get on. How can a large carriage be made to go without the crossbar for yoking the oxen to, or a small carriage without the arrangement for yoking the horses?"

23 為政いせい:
子こ張ちょう問とい：「十じゅう世せい可か知也ともや？」子こ曰：「殷いん因いん於夏禮れい，所しょ損益そんえき，可か知也ともや；周しゅう因いん於殷禮れい，所しょ損益そんえき，可か知也ともや；其或繼つぎ周しゅう者しゃ，雖百ひゃく世せい可か知也ともや。」
Wei Zheng:
Zi Zhang asked whether the affairs of ten ages after could be known. Confucius said, "The Yin dynasty followed the regulations of the Xia; wherein it took from or added to them may be known. The Zhou dynasty has followed the regulations of Yin; wherein it took from or added to them may be known. Some other may follow the Zhou, but though it should be at the distance of a hundred ages, its affairs may be known."

24 為政いせい:
子こ曰：「非ひ其鬼而祭之の，諂也。見み義ぎ不為ふため，無む勇いさみ也。」
Wei Zheng:
The Master said, "For a man to sacrifice to a spirit which does not belong to him is flattery. To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

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