| 《·》: | 孟子曰：「居下位，不以賢事不肖者，伯夷也。」 |
| Mencius replied, 'There was Bo Yi - he abode in an inferior situation, and would not, with his virtue, serve a degenerate prince.' |
| 《·》: | 司徒修六禮以節民性，明七教以興民德，齊八政以防淫，一道德以同俗，養耆老以致孝，恤孤獨以逮不足，上賢以崇德，簡不肖以絀惡。 |
| The minister of Instruction defined and set forth the six ceremonial observances: to direct and control the nature of the people; clearly illustrated the seven lessons (of morality) to stimulate their virtue; inculcated uniformity in the eight objects of government, to guard against all excess; taught the sameness of the course (of duty) and virtue, to assimilate manners; nourished the aged, to secure the completion of filial piety; showed pity to orphans and solitaries, to reach those who had been bereaved; exalted men of talents and worth, to give honour to virtue; and dealt summarily with the unworthy, to discountenance wickedness. |
| 《》: | 久則肖之矣 |
| After awhile, they were alike. |
| 《·》: | 不肖者抑而廢之，貧而賤之以為徒役，是以民皆勸其賞，畏其罰，相率而為賢。 |
| The vicious they kept back and banished, depossessed and degraded, and made labourers and servants. Thereupon people were all encouraged by rewards and threatened by punishments and strove with each other after virtue. |
| 《·》: | 且苟為悅賢而惡不肖，惡用而求有以異？ |
| Further, if perchance he takes pleasure in men of worth and hates those of an opposite character, what is the use of your seeking to make yourself out to be different (from such men about him)? |
| 《》: | 天下皆謂我道大，似不肖。 |
| All the world says that, while my Dao is great, it yet appears to be inferior (to other systems of teaching). |
| 《·》: | 賢者更禮，而不肖者拘焉。 |
| A man of talent reforms rites, but a worthless man is enslaved by them. |
| 《·》: | 堯知子丹朱之不肖，不足授天下，於是乃權授舜。 |
| Yao knew that his son Danzhu was a worthless fellow, who was not fit to reign, and so the authority was conferred on Shun. |
| 《·》: | 以賢易不肖，不待卜而後知吉。 |
| 《·》: | 不肖者精化始至，而生氣感動，觸情縱欲，故反施亂化。 |
| 《·》: | 從賢之志以達其義，從不肖之志以著其惡。 |
| 《·》: | 故不肖者、精化始具，而生氣感動，觸情縱欲，反施化，是以年壽亟夭，而性不長也。 |
| 《·》: | 使有司日省如時考之，歲誘賢焉，則賢者親，不肖者懼。 |
| 《》: | 以言為賢不肖，不可知也。 |
| 《·》: | 得不肖而舉之，得不肖而與之，譬其若下淵乎。 |
| 《·》: | 賢者更禮，不肖者拘焉。 |
| 《·》: | 多助者為賢才，寡助者為不肖。 |
| 《·》: | 使有司日省而時考之，進用賢良，退貶不肖。 |
| 《·》: | 故衰闇之世，本末之人，未必賢不肖也，禍福之所，勢不得無然爾。 |
| 《·》: | 賢不肖在此時矣。 |
| 《·》: | 測曰，「衝衝兒遇」、不肖子也。 |
| 《·》: | 賢者俯就，不肖跋及。 |
| 《·》: | 不肖，不似也。 |
| 《·》: | 及閔周室之衰微，禮義之不行也，厄挫頓仆，歷說諸侯，欲匡帝王之道，反天下之政，身無其立，而世無其主，周流天下，無所合意，大道隱而不舒，羽翼摧而不申，自□□□深授其化以厚終始，追治去事以正來世，案紀圖錄以知性命，表定《六藝》以，善惡不相干，貴賤不相侮，強弱不相凌，賢與不肖不得相踰，科第相序，為萬□□□而不絕，功傳而不衰，《詩》、《書》、《禮》、《樂》，為得其所，乃天道之所立，大義之所行也。 |
| 《·》: | 吾嘗三仕，三見逐於君，鮑叔不以我為不肖，知我不遭時也。 |
| 《·》: | 命之所立，賢不必得，不肖不必失。 |
| 《·》: | 稱聖德高行，雖不肖者知慕之。 |
| 《》: | 故曰：民者，賢、不肖之杖也。 |
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| 《·》: | 今則不然，不課賢不肖，論有功勞，用諸侯之重，聽左右之謁，父兄大臣上請爵祿於上，而下賣之以收財利及以樹私黨。 |
| 《·》: | 故賢而屈於不肖者，權輕也。 |
| 《·》: | 如此，則士上通而莫之能妒，不肖者困廢而莫之能舉。 |
| 《·》: | 君能使賢者居上，不肖者處下，則陳已定矣。 |
| 《·》: | 其君賢、不肖不等乎？ |
| 《·》: | 一賊仗劍擊於市，萬人無不避之者，臣謂：『非一人之獨勇，萬人皆不肖也』。 |
| 《·》: | 軍讖曰：善善不進，惡惡不退，賢者隱蔽，不肖在位，國受其害。 |
| 《·》: | 此列士之愚智，賢不肖之所分。 |
| 《·》: | 是故謂不肖者賢，則必不知賢。 |
| 《·》: | 孔子聞之曰：「此五人者之所以為王者佐也，不肖主之所弗安也。」 |
| 《·》: | 夫賢不肖、智愚、勇怯、仁、義有差。 |
| 《·》: | 今親賢而疏不肖，賞善而罰惡，賢、不肖、善、惡之名，宜在彼，親、疏、賞、罰之稱宜屬我。 |
