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perversity and unreasonableness of the other are
repeated. On this the superior man says, ‘This is a
man utterly lost indeed! Since he conducts himself
so, what is there to choose between him and a brute?
Why should I go to contend with a brute?’ Thus it
is that the superior man has a life-long anxiety and
not one morning’s calamity. As to what is matter of
anxiety to him, that indeed he has. He says, ‘Shun
was a man, and I also am a man. But Shun became
all example to all the kingdom, and his conduct was
worthy to be handed down to after ages, while I am
nothing better than a villager.’ This indeed is the
proper matter of anxiety to him. And in what way is
he anxious about it? Just that he maybe like Shun:
then only will he stop. As to what the superior man
would feel to be a calamity, there is no such thing.
He does nothing which is not according to propriety.
If there should befall him one morning’s calamity,
the superior man does not account it a calamity.”

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