Confucian Analects · Analects 12.5
1. Sze-ma Niu, full of anxiety, said, 'Other men all have their brothers, I only have not.' 2. Tsze-hsia said to him, 'There is the following saying which I have heard:-- 3. '"Death and life have their determined appointment; riches and honours depend upon Heaven." 4. 'Let the superior man never fail reverentially to order his own conduct, and let him be respectful to others and observant of propriety:-- 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?'
Chinese · source text【第五章】【一節】司馬牛憂曰、人皆有兄弟、我獨亡。【二節】子夏曰、商聞之矣。【三節】死生有命、富貴在天。【四節】君子敬而無失、與人恭而有禮、四海之內、皆兄弟也、君子何患乎無兄弟也。
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James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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