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Yen Yuan asked about perfect virtue, The Master said, "To subdue one's self and return to propriety, is perfect virtue.
顏淵問(wèn)仁，子曰：“克己復(fù)禮為仁。
If a man can for one day subdue himself and return to propriety, an under heaven will ascribe perfect virtue to him.
一日克己復(fù)禮，天下歸仁焉。
Is the practice of perfect virtue from a man himself, or is it from others?"
為仁由己，而由人乎哉？”
Yen Yuan said, "I beg to ask the steps of that process." The Master replied,
顏淵曰：“請(qǐng)問(wèn)其目？”子曰：
"Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety."
“非禮勿視，非禮勿聽(tīng)，非禮勿言，非禮勿動(dòng)。”
Yen Yuan then said, "Though I am deficient in intelligence and vigor, I will make it my business to practice this lesson."
顏淵曰：“回雖不敏，請(qǐng)事斯語(yǔ)矣。”
Chung-kung asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "It is, when you go abroad, to behave to every one as if you were receiving a great guest; to employ the people as if you were assisting at a great sacrifice;
仲弓問(wèn)仁，子曰：“出門(mén)如見(jiàn)大賓，使民如承大祭；
not to do to others as you would not wish done to yourself; to have no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family."
己所不欲，勿施于人；在邦無(wú)怨，在家無(wú)怨。”
Chung-kung said, "Though I am deficient in intelligence and vigor, I will make it my business to practice this lesson."
仲弓曰：“雍雖不敏，請(qǐng)事斯語(yǔ)矣。”
