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司马牛忧曰：“人皆有兄弟，我独亡［1］。”
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？”
Sze-ma Niu, full of anxiety, said, “Other men
all have their brothers. I only have not.” Tsze-
hsia said to him, “There is the following saying
which I have heard: —‘Death and life have their
determined appointment; riches and honours depend
upon Heaven.’ 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?”
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