鼎稔道學館

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良規第七（節）

原文 75 字

原文75 字

夫聰明大智，誠難得而貴也。聞善若驚，疾惡如仇。觀千劍而後識器，操千曲而後曉聲。故圓行方止，乘理而動者，君子之道也；矜功伐能，憑勢以陵物者，小人之行也。

白話 · CC0471 字

Truly, brilliant intelligence and great wisdom are hard to attain and precious.[The wise man] hears of the good as if startled by it, and hates evil as a personal enemy.

Only after viewing a thousand swords does one recognize a [good] blade;only after handling a thousand melodies does one understand sound.

Therefore to move in circles and rest in squares, to act in accordance with principle — this is the Way of the gentleman.

To boast of accomplishments and parade abilities, to ride upon authority in order to oppress others — this is the conduct of the petty man.

學者註579 字

The 'thousand swords / thousand melodies' couplet is borrowed almost verbatim from Liu Xie's near-contemporary *Wenxin Diaolong* — or rather, Liu Xie (writing ca.501) borrowed it from Ge Hong.

This is one of several passages establishing Ge Hong as a stylistic influence on Six Dynasties literary theory (cf.Knechtges, *Wen Xuan* introduction).

The *yuan xing fang zhi* 圓行方止 (round in motion, square in rest) image is Daoist cosmological vocabulary applied to ethics — the gentleman embodies in his conduct the relationship of Heaven (round) and Earth (square).

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