Mencius 7A.6
Mencius (孟子), Book 7, Part I: Jin Xin I 盡心上
孟子曰：「人不可以無恥。無恥之恥，無恥矣。」
Mencius said, 'A man may not be without shame. When one is ashamed of having been without shame, he will afterwards not have occasion to be ashamed.'
James Legge (1861), The Works of Mencius, The Chinese Classics vol. 2 (1861; 2nd ed. 1895); romanization modernized on Wikisource — public domain.
Character glossary
- 孟mèngfirst in a series; great, eminent
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 人rénman, person; people
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
- 無wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 恥chǐshame, humiliation; ashamed
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 矣yǐparticle of completed action
Passages with shared wording
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