Legge Translation (1861)

Zhonggong asked about perfect virtue. The Master said: "It is, when you go abroad, to behave to every one as if you were receiving a great guest; to employ the people as if you were assisting at a great sacrifice; not to do to others as you would not wish done to yourself; to have no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family."

Zhonggong said: "Though I am deficient in intelligence and vigor, I will make it my business to practice this lesson."