Confucian Analects · Analects 20.1
1. Yao said, 'Oh! you, Shun, the Heaven- determined order of succession now rests in your person. Sincerely hold fast the due Mean. If there shall be distress and want within the four seas, the Heavenly revenue will come to a perpetual end.' 2. Shun also used the same language in giving charge to Yu. 3. T'ang said, 'I the child Li, presume to use a dark- coloured victim, and presume to announce to Thee, O most great and sovereign God, that the sinner I dare not pardon, and thy ministers, O God, I do not keep in obscurity. The examination of them is by thy mind, O God. If, in my person, I commit offences, they are not to be attributed to you, the people of the myriad regions. If you in the myriad regions commit offences, these offences must rest on my person.' 4. Chau conferred great gifts, and the good were enriched. 5. 'Although he has his near relatives, they are not equal to my…
Chinese · source text【第一章】【一節】堯曰、咨、爾舜、天之曆數在爾躬、允執其中、四海困窮、天祿永終。【二節】舜亦以命禹。【三節】曰、予小子履、敢用玄牡、敢昭告于皇皇后帝、有罪不敢赦、帝臣不蔽、簡在帝心、朕躬有罪、無以萬方、萬方有罪、罪在朕躬。【四節】周有大賚、善人是富。【五節】雖有周親、不如仁人、百姓有過、在予一人。【六節】謹權量、審法度、修廢官、四方之政行焉。【七節】興滅國、繼絕世、舉逸民、天下之民歸心焉。【八節】所重民、食、喪、祭。【九節】寬則得眾、信、則民任焉、敏、則有功、公則說。
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James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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