颜渊问仁。子曰，克己复礼为仁，一日克己复礼，天下归仁焉，为仁由己，而由人乎哉。颜渊曰，请问其目。子曰，非礼勿视，非礼勿听，非礼勿言，非礼勿动。颜渊曰，回虽不敏，请事斯语矣。
白话导读
颜渊请教什么是仁。孔子说：克制自己的私欲，使言行都回到礼上，就是仁。一旦做到克己复礼，天下的人都会称许你是仁人。实行仁德全靠自己，难道还靠别人吗？颜渊说：请问实行仁德的具体条目。孔子说：不合礼的不看，不合礼的不听，不合礼的不说，不合礼的不做。颜渊说：我颜回虽然不够聪敏，也要照这话去做。
James Legge 英译
1. Yen Yuan asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "To subdue one's self and return to propriety, is perfect virtue. If a man can for one day subdue himself and return to propriety, all under heaven will ascribe perfect virtue to him. Is the practice of perfect virtue from a man himself, or is it from others?" 2. Yen Yuan said, "I beg to ask the steps of that process." The Master replied, "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." Yen Yuan then said, "Though I am deficient in intelligence and vigour, I will make it my business to practise this lesson."
译注：James Legge 公版英译，1893 年原版。
注释
- 底本：Wikisource 整理的 James Legge《The Chinese Classics》公版中英文本（1893–1895）。
- 简体化：原文由繁体转为简体（OpenCC），与公版英译逐句对应。
- 白话参考底本：《白话论语读本》，张兆瑢、沈元起编译，上海广益书局1948 年新三版。