| 《·》: | 則惟上帝鬼神降之罪厲之禍罰而棄之，則豈不亦乃其所哉！ |
| Therefore God and spirits will send judgement upon them and visit them with calamities and punish and desert them. Is not this quite in place? |
| 《·》: | 子曰：「學而時習之，不亦說乎？」 |
| The Master said, "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?" |
| 《·》: | 民以為小，不亦宜乎？ |
| And was it not with reason that they looked on it as small? |
| 《·》: | 而彭祖乃今以久特聞，眾人匹之，不亦悲乎！ |
| And Peng Zu is the one man renowned to the present day for his length of life: if all men were (to wish) to match him, would they not be miserable? |
| 《·》: | 今人而無禮，雖能言，不亦禽獸之心乎？ |
| Here now is a man who observes no rules of propriety; is not his heart that of a beast? |
| 《·》: | 比之匪人，不亦傷乎 |
| 'Union is sought with such as ought not to be associated with:' - but will not injury be the result? |
| 《·》: | 處非道之位，被眾口之譖，溺於當世之言，而欲當嚴天子而求安，幾不亦難哉 |
| 《·》: | 今子游始於此，乃語窮觀，豈不亦遠哉！ |
| 《·》: | 繆公怪之，問曰：「中國以詩書禮樂法度為政，然尚時亂，今戎夷無此，何以為治，不亦難乎？」 |
| 《·》: | 卻賢者，行也，口行相反，而欲賢者之至，不肖者之退也，不亦難乎！ |
| 《》: | 鄭息有違言，息侯伐鄭，鄭伯與戰于竟，息師大敗而還，君子是以知息之將亡也，不度德，不量力，不親親，不徵辭，不察有罪，犯五不韙，而以伐人，其喪師也，不亦宜乎。 |
| 《·》: | 有人貴而不能為人上，賤而羞為人下，此姦人之心也，身不離姦心，而行不離姦道，然而求見譽於眾，不亦難乎？ |
| 《·》: | 鄧、失地而朝魯桓，鄧、彀失地，不亦宜乎？ |
| 《·》: | 師操不化不聽之術而以彊教之，欲道之行、身之尊也，不亦遠乎？ |
| 《·》: | 今虢公動匱百姓以逞其違，離民怒神而求利焉，不亦難乎！ |
| 《·》: | 从口从不，不亦聲。 |
