论语名句英译丨每日一页（4)

25. 见义不为，无勇也。 2.24

Failing to take action at the critical moment is a lack of courage. 

26. 是可忍，孰不可忍也！ 3.1

If this could be tolerated, what else might not? 

27. 人而不仁，如礼何？人而不仁，如乐何？ 3.3

If a man is virtueless, what does propriety mean to him?  If a man is virtueless, what does music mean to him? 

28. 君子无所争，必也射乎！ 3.7

A gentleman contends for nothing.

29. 获罪于天，无所祷也。 3.13

He who offends God of Heaven has none to pray to. 

30. 既往不咎。 3.21

Let bygones be bygones. 

31. 里仁为美。 4.1

It is a nice thing to have benevolent neighbors. 

32. 不仁者不可以久处约，不可以长处乐。 4.2

The virtueless cannot live for long either in poverty or in comfort.

33. 唯仁者能好人，能恶人。4.3

It is only the virtuous who know how to love and how to hate.

34. 苟志于仁矣，无恶也。” 4.4

Those who make it their goal to attain to benevolence will conduct nothing wicked.