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?孟
子
愿为之有家。父母之心，人皆有之。不待父
母之命、媒妁之言，钻穴隙相窥，逾墙相从，
则父母国人皆贱之。古之人未尝不欲仕也，
又恶不由其道。不由其道而往者，与钻穴隙
之类也。”
Zhou Xiao asked Mencius, saying, “Did
superior men of old time take office?”
Mencius replied, “They did. The Record says,
‘If Confucius was three months without being
employed by some ruler, he looked anxious and
unhappy. When he passed from the boundary of a
state, he was sure to carry with him his proper gift
of introduction.’ Gongming Yi said, ‘Among the
ancients, if an officer was three months unemployed
by a ruler, he was condoled with.”
Xiao said, “Did not this condoling, on being
three months unemployed by a ruler, show a too
great urgency?”
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