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Sze-ma Niu asked about perfect virtue, The Master said, "The man of perfect virtue is cautious and slow in his speech."
司馬牛問仁，子曰：“仁者，其言也讱。”
"Cautious and slow in his speech!" said Niu, - "is this what is meant by perfect virtue?" The Master said, "When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?"
曰：“其言也讱，斯謂之仁已乎？”子曰：“為之難，言之得無讱乎？”
Sze-ma Niu asked about the superior man. The Master said, "The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear."
司馬牛問君子，子曰：“君子不憂不懼。”
"Being without anxiety or fear!" said Nui;"does this constitute what we call the superior man?"
曰：“不憂不懼，斯謂之君子已乎？”
The Master said, "When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?"
子曰：“內省不疚，夫何憂何懼？”
Sze-ma Niu, full of anxiety, said, "Other men all have their brothers, I only have not."
司馬牛憂曰：“人皆有兄弟，我獨亡。”
Tsze-hsia said to him, "There is the following saying which I have heard - Death and life have their determined appointment; riches and honors depend upon Heaven.
子夏曰：“商聞之矣：死生有命，富貴在天。
Let the superior man never fail reverentially to order his own conduct, and let him be respectful to others and observant of propriety,
君子敬而無失，與人恭而有禮，
then all within the four seas will be his brothers. What has the superior man to do with being distressed because he has no brothers?"
四海之內皆兄弟也。君子何患乎無兄弟也？”
