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子
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王子垫［1］问曰：“士何事？”
孟子曰：“尚志。”
曰：“何谓尚志？”
曰：“仁义而已矣。杀一无罪，非仁也；
非其有而取之，非义也。居恶在？仁是也；
路恶在？义是也。居仁由义，大人［2］之事备
矣。”
The king’s son, Dian, asked Mencius, saying,
“What is the business of the unemployed scholar?”
Mencius replied, “To exalt his aim.”
Dian asked again, “What do you mean by
exalting the aim?”
The answer was, “Setting it simply on benevolence
and righteousness. He thinks how to put a single
innocent person to death is contrary to benevolence;
how to take what one has not a right to is contrary
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