Confucean thought summarized for the Prince. Tr. Legge (en), Pauthier (fr), Bog (fr).
Confucius' text, Zengzi's comments on illustrious virtue, renovation of the people, the highest excellence, the root and the branches, investigation of things, having the thoughts sincere, the rectification of the mind, the regulation of the family, the well-ordering of the State, making the whole kingdom peaceful and happy.
Zengzi's Second Commentary
The renovation of the people.
On the bathing tub of Tang, the following words were engraved:— “If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.”
Legge II. 1.
商汤在洗脸盛水的盘子上刻着:“果真要每天洗涤污垢,刷新自己,就要每天每天地刷新,又每天更加刷新。”
白话翻译
Des caractères gravés sur la baignoire du roi Tching-thang disoient : « Renouvelle-toi complétement chaque jour ; fais-le de nouveau, encore de nouveau, et toujours de nouveau. »
Pauthier II. 1.
Sur sa baignoire, le Roi Tang avait fait graver : « Si ce jour te régénère, jour après jour te régénère, chaque jour te régénère »
Bog
The Great Learning – Daxue III. 1. – Chinese off/on – Français/English
Alias Daxue, Da Xue, Ta Hsue, Ta Hio, Great Learning, Adult Study (Pound), Grande Etude.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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