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子贡曰：“如有博施于民而能济众，何如？
可谓仁乎？”子曰：“何事［1］于仁！必也圣乎！
尧、舜其犹病［2］诸！夫仁者，己欲立而立人，
己欲达而达人。能近取譬，可谓仁之方也已。”
Tsze-kung said, “Suppose the case of a man
extensively conferring benefits on the people, and
able to assist all, what would you say of him? Might
he be called perfectly virtuous?” The Master said,
“Why speak only of virtue in connexion with him?
Must he not have the qualities of a sage? Even Yao
and Shun were still solicitous about this. Now the
man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established
himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to
be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
To be able to judge of others by what is nigh in
ourselves; —this may be called the art of virtue.”
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