Yen Yuan / 5
司马牛忧曰，人皆有兄弟，我独亡。子夏曰，商闻之矣。死生有命，富贵在天。君子敬而无失，与人恭而有礼，四海之内，皆兄弟也，君子何患乎无兄弟也。
Modern Chinese Guide
司马牛忧愁地说：别人都有兄弟，唯独我没有。子夏说：我听说过这样的话：死生自有命运安排，富贵在于上天决定。君子只要做事恭敬谨慎而没有过失，待人恭敬而合乎礼，那么四海之内的人，都是自己的兄弟。君子何必忧愁没有兄弟呢？
James Legge Translation
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?"
Notes and themes
- 底本：Wikisource 整理的 James Legge《The Chinese Classics》公版中英文本。
- 中文由繁体转为简体，后续白话解释需逐章审校。
- 白话参考底本：《白话论语读本》，张兆瑢、沈元起编译，上海广益书局1948 年新三版。
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