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曾子居武城，有越寇。或曰：“寇至，盍去诸？”曰：“无寓人于我室，毁伤其薪木。”寇退，则曰：“修我墙屋，我将反。”寇退，曾子反。左右曰：“待先生，如此其忠且敬也。寇至则先去以为民望，寇退则反，殆于不可。”沈犹行曰：“是非汝所知也。昔沈犹有负刍之祸，从先生者七十人，未有与焉。” |
| Li Lou II: |
When the philosopher Zeng dwelt in Wu Cheng, there came a band from Yue to plunder it. Someone said to him, 'The plunderers are coming - why not leave this?' Zeng on this left the city, saying to the man in charge of the house, 'Do not lodge any persons in my house, lest they break and injure the plants and trees.' When the plunderers withdrew, he sent word to him, saying, 'Repair the walls of my house. I am about to return.' When the plunderers retired, the philosopher Zeng returned accordingly. His disciples said, 'Since our master was treated with so much sincerity and respect, for him to be the first to go away on the arrival of the plunderers, so as to be observed by the people, and then to return on their retiring, appears to us to be improper.' Shen You Xing said, 'You do not understand this matter. Formerly, when Shen You was exposed to the outbreak of the grass-carriers, there were seventy disciples in our master's following, and none of them took part in the matter.' |
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子思居于卫，有齐寇。或曰：“寇至，盍去诸？”子思曰：“如伋去，君谁与守？” |
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When Zi Si was living in Wei, there came a band from Qi to plunder. Some one said to him, 'The plunderers are coming - why not leave this?' Zi Si said, 'If I go away, whom will the prince have to guard the State with?' |
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孟子曰：“曾子、子思同道。曾子，师也，父兄也；子思，臣也，微也。曾子、子思易地则皆然。” |
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Mencius said, 'The philosophers Zeng and Zi Si agreed in the principle of their conduct. Zeng was a teacher - in the place of a father or elder brother. Zi Si was a minister - in a meaner place. If the philosophers Zeng and Zi Si had exchanged places the one would have done what the other did.' |
