古诗文翻译

有教无类。In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

当仁，不让于师。When it comes to benevolence, one need not give precedence even to his teacher.

学而时习之，不亦说乎？Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?

温故而知新，可以为师矣。If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

敏而好学，不耻下问。He was of an active nature and yet fond of learning, and he was not ashamed to ask and learn of his inferiors.

十室之邑，必有忠信，如丘者焉，不如丘之好学也。In a hamlet of ten families, there may be found one honourable and sincere as I am, but not so fond of learning.

知之者，不如好之者，好之者，不如乐之者。They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

默而识之，学而不厌，诲人不倦，何有于我哉。The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied -- which one of these things belongs to me?

我非生而知之者，好古，敏以求之者也。I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

三人行，必有我师焉。择其善者而从之，其不善者而改之。When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.

学如不及，犹恐失之。Learn as if you could not reach your object, and were always fearing also lest you should lose it.

君君，臣臣，父父，子子。There is government, when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.

子为政，焉用杀；子欲善，而民善矣。君子之德风，小人之德草，草上之风必偃。In carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors, is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

举直错诸枉，能使枉者直。Employ the upright and put aside all the crooked;-- in this way the crooked can be made to be upright.

先有司，赦小过，举贤才。Employ various officers, pardon small faults, and raise to office men of virtue and talents..

名不正，则言不顺；言不顺，则事不成；事不成，则礼乐不兴；礼乐不兴，则刑罚不中；刑罚不中，则民无所措手足。If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music will not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot.

如有王者，必世而后仁。If a truly royal ruler were to arise, it would still require a generation, and then virtue would prevail.

行己有耻，使于四方，不辱君命，可谓士矣。He who in his conduct of himself maintains a sense of shame, and when sent to any quarter will not disgrace his prince's commission, deserves to be called an officer.

以不教民战，是谓弃之。To lead an uninstructed people to war, is to throw them away.

不在其位，不谋其政。He who is not in any particular office, has nothing to do with plans for the administration of its duties.

上好礼，则民易使也。When rulers love to observe the rules of propriety, the people respond readily to the calls on them for service.

闻有国有家者，不患寡，而患不均，不患贫，而患不安。盖均无贫，和无寡，安无倾。

I have heard that rulers of States and chiefs of families are not troubled lest their people should be few, but are troubled lest they should not keep their several places; that they are not troubled with fears of poverty, but are troubled with fears of a want of contented repose among the people in their several places. For when the people keep their several places, there will be no poverty; when harmony prevails, there will be no scarcity of people; and when there is such a contented repose, there will be no rebellious upsettings.

性相近也，习相远也。By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

过而不改，是谓过矣。Not to mend the fault one has made is to err indeed.

己所不欲，勿施于人。What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

言必信，行必果。Keep what you say and carry out what you do.