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有游于子墨子之门者，谓子墨子曰：“先生以鬼神为明知，能为祸人哉福？为善者富之，为暴者祸之。今吾事先生久矣，而福不至，意者先生之言有不善乎？鬼神不明乎？我何故不得福也？”子墨子曰：“虽子不得福，吾言何遽不善？而鬼神何遽不明？子亦闻乎匿徒之刑之有刑乎？”对曰：“未之得闻也。”子墨子曰：“今有人于此，什子，子能什誉之，而一自誉乎？”对曰：“不能。”“有人于此，百子，子能终身誉亓善，而子无一乎？”对曰：“不能。”子墨子曰：“匿一人者犹有罪，今子所匿者若此亓多，将有厚罪者也，何福之求？” |
| Gong Meng: |
A man visited Mozi's school and said to Mozi: "Sir, you teach that the ghosts and spirits are intelligent and can bring calamity or blessing to man. They will enrich the good and harm the evil. Now, I have served you for a long time. Yet no blessing has come. Can it be that your teaching is not entirely correct, and that the ghosts and spirits are not intelligent? Else why don't I obtain any blessing?" Mozi said: Though you have not obtained any blessing, how does that invalidate my teaching and how does that make the ghosts and spirits unintelligent? He replied that he did not know. Mozi continued: Suppose there is a man ten times as virtuous as you are, can you praise him ten times while you praise yourself but once? He answered that he could not. Now suppose there is a man a hundred times as virtuous as you are, can you during your whole life praise him and not praise yourself even once? He answered that he could not. Mozi said: He who obscured the virtues of one person is guilty. Now, you have obscured the virtues of so many. You must be guilty of very much. Wherewith can you expect blessing? |
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子墨子有疾，跌鼻进而问曰：先生以鬼神为明，能为祸福，为善者赏之，为不善者罚之。今先生圣人也，何故有疾？意者先生之言有不善乎？鬼神不明知乎？”子墨子曰：“虽使我有病，何遽不明？人之所得于病者多方，有得之寒暑，有得之劳苦，百门而闭一门焉，则盗何遽无从入？” |
| Gong Meng: |
Mozi was sick. Die Bi came and inquired: "Sir, you have taught the ghosts and spirits are intelligent and are in control of calamity and blessing. They will reward the good and punish the evil. Now you are a sage. How can you become sick? Can it be that your teaching was not entirely correct, that the ghosts and spirits are after all unintelligent? Mozi said: Though I am sick how (does it follow that the ghosts and spirits) should be unintelligent? There are many ways by which a man can contract diseases. Some are affected by climate, some by fatigue. If there are a hundred gates and only one of them is closed, how is it that the burglar should not be able to get in? |
