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Yen Yuan asked about perfect virtue, The Master said, "To subdue one's self and return to propriety, is perfect virtue.
颜渊问仁，子曰：“克己复礼为仁。
If a man can for one day subdue himself and return to propriety, an under heaven will ascribe perfect virtue to him.
一日克己复礼，天下归仁焉。
Is the practice of perfect virtue from a man himself, or is it from others?"
为仁由己，而由人乎哉？”
Yen Yuan said, "I beg to ask the steps of that process." The Master replied,
颜渊曰：“请问其目？”子曰：
"Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety."
“非礼勿视，非礼勿听，非礼勿言，非礼勿动。”
Yen Yuan then said, "Though I am deficient in intelligence and vigor, I will make it my business to practice this lesson."
颜渊曰：“回虽不敏，请事斯语矣。”
Chung-kung asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "It is, when you go abroad, to behave to every one as if you were receiving a great guest; to employ the people as if you were assisting at a great sacrifice;
仲弓问仁，子曰：“出门如见大宾，使民如承大祭；
not to do to others as you would not wish done to yourself; to have no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family."
己所不欲，勿施于人；在邦无怨，在家无怨。”
Chung-kung said, "Though I am deficient in intelligence and vigor, I will make it my business to practice this lesson."
仲弓曰：“雍虽不敏，请事斯语矣。”
