Mencius s Dedication to the Translation of the Chapters and Sentences of Mencius, full translation

Original text: Mencius said: "If you ask for it, you will get it, and if you give it up, you will lose it, it is to seek to be beneficial to it, and those who seek it are in me also want to have a way, and you can get it, and you want to get it without benefiting, and you want to be outside." ”

Translation: Mencius said, "Seek to gain, give up and lose, this kind of seeking is good for getting, because what I ask for is in myself."

There is a certain way to seek, but whether or not you can get it depends on the destiny of heaven, and this kind of seeking is not beneficial to get it, because what you are seeking is something outside the body. ”

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Original

The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. The city of three miles, the Guo of seven miles, the ring and attack it without victory. If the husband attacks it, there will be those who have the right time, but the one who does not win is not as good as the location.

The city is not high, the pool is not deep, the military revolution is not strong, and the rice millet (sù) is not much. Therefore, it is said that the people of the domain do not use the boundaries of the frontier, the country does not take the risk of mountains and streams, and the world does not take the benefits of the military revolution. Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help.

Widows are helpless, relatives are on the side. If you help more, the world will follow it. With the world's obedience, attack the relatives of the side, so the gentleman does not fight, the battle will be won.

Translation

The weather conducive to combat is not as good as the geographical environment conducive to combat; The geographical environment conducive to the operation is not comparable to the popular desire and internal unity in the operation. An inner city with a radius of three miles, but an outer city with a radius of seven miles, was surrounded on all sides and attacked it, but could not win. Attacking a city by encircling it on all sides must have obtained weather and seasons that are conducive to combat, but it cannot be won, because the weather and seasons that are conducive to operations are not as good as the geographical environment that is conducive to operations.

The city wall is not low, the moat is not deep, the equipment is not not sophisticated, and the food supply is not insufficient, but (the defenders) abandon the city and flee, because the geographical environment conducive to the battle is not as good as the people's desire and internal unity in the battle. Therefore, restricting the common people cannot rely only on the boundaries of the demarcated territory, consolidating national defense cannot rely on the dangers of mountains and rivers, and deterring the world cannot rely on the strength of force. A monarch who practices "benevolent government" will have more people who will help him, and a monarch who will not practice "benevolent government" will have fewer people who will support and help him.

There are very few people who help him, their own'relatives will also betray him; The number of people who helped him was so great that all the people of the world would submit to him. On the condition that all the people of the world submit to him, he will attack the king who is helpless and helpless, and even his relatives oppose him, so that the monarch (who exercises "benevolent government") will be victorious without fighting.

Born in sorrow, died in peace.

Original

舜 (shùn) is in 畎 (quǎn) mu, Fu Shuo (yuè) is lifted between plates, glue (gé) is held in fish salt, Guan Yiwu is raised in Shi, Sun Shu Ao is held in the sea, and Baili Xi is held in the city. Therefore, the heavens will descend on people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty (kòng) their bodies, and act chaotically, so they are tempted to endure and benefit what they cannot.

People are constant and then can change, trapped in the heart and worry before doing, and the sign is in the color and then the sound. If you enter, you will not be able to leave home, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will perish. Then he was born in sorrow and died in peace.