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列御寇 - Lie Yu-kou

English translation: James Legge [?]
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13 列御寇:
贼莫大乎德有心而心有眼1,及其有眼2也而内视,内视而败矣。凶德有五,中德为首。何谓中德?中德也者,有以自好也而吡其所不为者也。
Lie Yu-kou:
Of all things that injure (men) there is none greater than the practising of virtue with the purpose of the mind, till the mind becomes supercilious. When it becomes so, the mind (only) looks inwards (on itself), and such looking into itself leads to its ruin. This evil quality has five forms, and the chief of them is that which is the central. What do we mean by the central quality? It is that which appears in a man's loving (only) his own views, and reviling whatever he does not do (himself).
穷有八极,达有三必,形有六府。美、髯、长、大、壮、丽、勇、敢,八者俱过人也,因以是穷。缘循、偃佒、困畏不若人,三者俱通达。知慧外通,勇动多怨,仁义多责。达生之情者傀,达于知者肖;达大命者随,达小命者遭。
Limiting (men's advance), there are eight extreme conditions; securing (that advance), there are three things necessary; and the person has its six repositories. Elegance; a (fine) beard; tallness; size; strength; beauty; bravery; daring; and in all these excelling others: (these are the eight extreme conditions) by which advance is limited. Depending on and copying others; stooping in order to rise; and being straitened by the fear of not equalling others: these are the three things that lead to advancing. Knowledge seeking to reach to all that is external; bold movement producing many resentments; benevolence and righteousness leading to many requisitions; understanding the phenomena of life in an extraordinary degree; understanding all knowledge so as to possess an approach to it; understanding the great condition appointed for him, and following it, and the smaller conditions, and meeting them as they occur: (these are the six repositories of the person).

1. 眼 : Another version reads: "睫". 《四部丛刊》本作“睫”。
2. 眼 : Another version reads: "睫". 《四部丛刊》本作“睫”。

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