Shun Among Mountain Dwellers
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English translation
Original Chinese text
孟子曰:“舜之居深山之中,与木石居,与鹿豕游,其所以异于深山之野人者几希。
English translation
Mencius said, “When Shun lived deep in the mountains, among trees and rocks and roaming with deer and pigs, he differed little from the ordinary people living in the mountains.”
Original Chinese text
及其闻一善言,见一善行,若决江河,沛然莫之能御也。”
English translation
“Yet whenever he heard one good word or saw one good deed, he surged forward like a river bursting its banks, with nothing able to hold him back.”