大学选译 

1. 大学“三纲领”
2. 知止而后有定
3. 物有本末，事有终始
4. 大学“八条目”
5. 修身为本
6. 明明德
7. 日新又新
8. 其命维新
9. 知其所止
10. 止于至善
11. 如切如磋，如琢如磨
12. 必也使无讼乎
13. 致知在格物
14. 理有未穷而知有不尽
15. 诚其意者，毋自欺
16. 富润屋，德润身
17. 修身在正其心
18. 齐其家在修其身
19. 治国必先齐其家
20. 如保赤子
21. 一家仁，一国兴仁
22. 治国在齐其家
23. 平天下在治其国
24. 絜矩之道
25. 乐只君子，民之父母
26. 得众则得国，失众则失国
27. 君子先慎乎德
28. 德本财末
29. 财散民聚
30. 仁人能爱人能恶人
31. 忠信以得之，骄泰以失之
32. 仁者以财发身，不仁者以身发财
33. 以义为利

中庸选译

1. 天命之谓性
2. 道不可须臾离
3. 中为天下之大本，和为天下之达道
4. 致中和
5. 君子中庸
6. 君子而时中
7. 中庸其至矣乎
8. 道之不行与不明
9. 舜好问而好察迩言，隐恶而扬善
10. 执其两端，用其中于民
11. 择乎中庸，而不能期月守
12. 拳拳服膺而弗失
13. 君子和而不流，中立而不倚
14. 遁世不见知而不悔 
15. 君子之道费而隐
16. 道不远人
17. 忠恕违道不远
18. 庸德之行，庸言之谨
19. 言顾行，行顾言
20. 君子素其位而行
21. 正己而不求于人
22. 上不怨天，下不尤人
23. 君子居易以俟命
24. 君子反求诸其身
25. 行远必自迩，登高必自卑
26. 诚之不可掩
27. 大德必得其位
28. 天之生物，必因其材而笃焉
29. 大德者必受命
30. 父作之，子述之
31. 夫孝者，善继人之志，善述人之事
32. 人存政举，人亡政息
33. 人道敏政，地道敏树
34. 仁者人也，义者宜也
35. 天下之五达道
36. 天下之三达德
37. 好学近乎知，力行近乎仁，知耻近乎勇
38. 凡为天下国家有九经
39. 凡事豫则立，不豫则废
40. 诚者天之道，诚之者人之道
41. 诚之者，择善而固执
42. 人一能之己百之，人十能之己千之
43. 自诚明谓之性，自明诚谓之教
44. 诚则明矣，明则诚矣
45. 唯天下至诚，可以赞天地之化育
46. 唯天下至诚为能化
47. 至诚之道，可以前知
48. 国家将兴，必有祯祥
49. 至诚如神
50. 君子诚之为贵
51. 诚者，既成己又成物
52. 成己仁也，成物知也
53. 至诚无息
54. 极高明而道中庸
55. 温故而知新，敦厚以崇礼
56. 愚而好自用，贱而好自专，灾必及其身
57. 君子之道百世以俟圣人而不惑
58. 君子行为天下法
59. 仲尼祖述尧舜，宪章文武
60. 唯天下至圣，为能聪明睿知
61. 唯天下至诚，为能经纶天下之大经
62. 君子之道，暗然而日章
63. 君子内省不疚
64. 君子不动而敬
65. 君子不赏而民劝
66. 君子笃恭而天下平
67. 予怀明德，不大声以色

Contents

Higher Education (Selections)


1. “Three Guidelines” of Higher Education
2. A standard of excellence brings out a fixed and definite purpose
3.Causes and effects in physical nature; springs of actions and consequences in human affairs
4. “Eight Particulars” of Higher Education
5. Order the conversation aright—— the foundation
6. Bring out the intelligent moral power of our nature
7. Be new from day to day and everyday 
8. A new mission was given
9. Know what to choose for the abode
10. Abide in the highest excellence 
11. “Cut and filed”,“chiseled and ground”
12. Try to make lawsuits impossible
13. To acquire knowledge depends on a systematic study of things
14. So long as all principles are not investigated, man’s knowledge is incomplete
15. To have true ideas is to have no self-deception
16. Wealth embellishes a house, moral qualities embellish the person
17. Ordering conversation aright depends upon putting the state of mind in a proper and well-ordered condition
18. Putting one’s house in order depends upon the ordering of his conversation aright
19. Securing a good government depends firstly upon putting one’s house in order
20. As a mother watches over her new born child
21. Kindness and humanity in one family, the whole nation grows kind and humane
22. To have a good government lies in putting one’s house in order
23. Have a good government and further the peace and order throughout the world
24. A self-measuring rule 
25. How the people love the prince who is a father and a mother to the people
26. When a ruler gains the hearts of the people, he will gain the kingdom; when he loses the hearts of the people, he will lose the kingdom
27. The first care of the ruler is to make sure that he has the moral qualities
28. Moral quality, the foundation; wealth, the means
29. The distribution of wealth among the many contributes to the stability of society
30. The truly good and moral man can love or hate others
31. If faithful and trustworthy, he is sure to succeed; if proud and careless, he is sure to fail
32. Moral men make money to live; immoral men live to make money
33. Honor and duty make a nation prosperous
The Universal Order (Selections)
1. The ordinance of God is what we call the law of our being
2. We cannot escape the operation of moral law for one instant in our existence
3. Moral being is the great reality existence; moral order is the universal law in the world
4. To realize true moral being and moral order
5. The life of the moral man is an exemplification of the universal moral order
6. The moral man unceasingly cultivates his moral being
7. To find and get into the true central balance of our moral being
8. Why there is no real moral life and why the moral law is not understood
9. Shun had a natural curiosity of mind and loved to inquire into near facts
10. Taking the two extremes of negative and positive, and applying the mean in the dealing with people
11. Men are not able to keep the true central balance for a round month
12. Embrace it with all his might and never lost it again
13. The moral man is independent without any bias
14. Live unknown to the world and unnoticed of men without any concern
15. The moral law is to be found everywhere, and yet it is a secret
16. The moral law is not something away from the actuality of human life
17. Carrying out the principles of conscientiousness and reciprocity, he is not far from the moral law
18. The discharge of the ordinary duties of life; the exercise of care in ordinary conversation
19. Words having respect to actions; actions having respect to words
20. The moral man conforms himself to his life circumstances
21. The moral man puts in order his own personal conduct and seeks nothing from others
22. He complains not against God nor rails against men
23. The moral man lives out the even tenor of his life, calmly waiting for the appointment of God
24. The moral man turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure within himself
25. Start from the nearest stage when traveling afar; begin from the lowest step while ascending a height 189
26. It is impossible to doubt the spiritual nature of man
27. He who possesses great moral qualities will certainly attain to corresponding high position
28. For God in giving life to all created things is surely bountiful to them according to their qualities
29. He who possesses exceedingly great moral qualities will certainly receive the divine call to the Imperial throne
30. His father laid the foundation of his House and his son carried it on
31. True filial piety consists in carrying out the unfinished work of our forefathers and transmitting their achievements to posterity
32. When the men are there, good government will flourish, but when the men are gone, good government decays and becomes extinct
33. With the right men the growth of good government is as rapid as the growth of vegetation is in the right soil
34. The moral sense is the characteristic attribute of man; the sense of justice is the recognition of what is right and proper
35. The five duties of universal obligation
36. The three universally recognized moral qualities of man
37. Love of knowledge is the characteristic of men of intellectual character; strenuous attention to conduct is the characteristic of men of moral character; sensitiveness to shame is the characteristic of men of courage
38. Nine cardinal directions for every government of nations and empires
39. Success depends on preparation in all matters, without which there will always be failure
40. Truth is the law of God; acquired truth is the law of man
41. He who acquires truth is one who finds out what is good and holds fast to it
42. If another man succeeds by one effort, you will use a hundred efforts
43. The intuition and education
44. The truth and intelligence 
45. He who possesses absolute truth can influence the forces of creation of the Universe
46. It is only he who possesses absolute truth in the world who can create
47. It is an attribute of the possession of absolute truth to be able to foreknow
48. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be lucky omens
49. He who possesses absolute truth is like a spiritual being
50. The moral man values truth
51. Truth is the realization of our own being; it is also that by which things outside of us have an existence
52. The realization of our being is moral sense; the realization of things outside of us is intellect 269
53. The absolute truth is indestructible
54. Seek to understand the highest things, and live a plain, ordinary life in accordance with the moral order
55. Going over what he has already acquired, he keeps adding to it new knowledge
56. He who is foolish and fond of using his own judgment will bring calamity upon himself
57. Every system of moral laws must be based upon the man’s own consciousness
58. Every thing a moral man does becomes a statute for generations
59. Confucius taught the truth handed down by Emperors Yao and Shun; adopted and perfected the system of moral laws established by the Emperors Wen and Wu
60. Only the man with the most perfect divine moral nature can combine in himself quickness of apprehension, intelligence, insight and understanding
61. Only he in this world who is possessed of absolute truth can order and adjust the great relations of human society
62. The life of the moral man is unobtrusive and yet it grows more and more in significance
63. The moral man examines into his own heart and has no cause for self-reproach
64. The moral man, not doing anything, is serious
65. The moral man, without the inducement of rewards, is able to make the people good
66. The moral man living a life of simple truth and earnestness can bring peace and order in the world
67. I keep in mind the fine moral qualities which make no great noise or show


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