| 《·》: | 故中效，則是也。 |
| Thus what matches the imitation is so. |
| 《·》: | 牢曰：「子云，『吾不試，故藝』」 |
| Lao said, "The Master said, 'Having no official employment, I acquired many arts.'" |
| 《·》: | 古之人與民偕樂，故能樂也。 |
| The ancients caused the people to have pleasure as well as themselves, and therefore they could enjoy it. |
| 《·》: | 故夫知效一官，行比一鄉，德合一君而徵一國者，其自視也亦若此矣。 |
| Thus it is that men, whose wisdom is sufficient for the duties of some one office, or whose conduct will secure harmony in some one district, or whose virtue is befitting a ruler so that they could efficiently govern some one state, are sure to look on themselves in this manner (like the quail). |
| 《·》: | 有土德之瑞，故號黃帝。 |
| There was an auspicious omen of the earth's energy, and he was therefore called 'Yellow god.' |
| 《·》: | 故曰：禮者不可不學也。 |
| Hence there is the saying, 'The rules of propriety should by no means be left unlearned.' |
| 《》: | 故能成其私。 |
| That therefore such ends are realised? |
| 《·》: | 故曰：勝可知，而不可為。 |
| Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it. |
| 《·》: | 故曰：農戰之民千人，而有詩書辯慧者一人焉，千人者皆怠於農戰矣。 |
| Therefore is it said: If there are a thousand people engaged in agriculture and war, and only one in the Odes and History, and clever sophistry, then those thousand will all be remiss in agriculture and war. |
| 《·》: | 故曰：「兵者，凶器也，」 |
| 《·》: | 天墬未形，馮馮翼翼，洞洞灟灟，故曰太昭。 |
| 《·》: | 故龍以子之言有似齊王。 |
| 《·》: | 故曰：學莫便乎近其人。 |
| 《》: | 惠公元妃孟子，孟子卒，繼室以聲子，生隱公，宋武公生仲子，仲子生而有文在其手，曰為魯夫人，故仲子歸于我，生桓公而惠公薨，是以隱公立而奉之。 |
| 《·》: | 今君之失多矣，未有一士以聞者也，故曰未具。 |
| 《·》: | 故曰：非虛加之，重誌之謂也。 |
