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齐宣王问曰：“汤放桀，武王伐纣，有诸？”孟子对曰：“于传［1］有之。”曰：“臣弑［2］其君可乎？”曰：“贼仁者谓之贼，贼义者谓之残，残贼之人谓之一夫［3］。闻诛一夫纣矣，未闻弑君也。”The king Xuan of Qi asked, saying, “Was it so, that Tang banished Jie, and that king Wu smote Zhou?”Mencius replied, “It is so in the records.”The king said, “May a minister then put his sovereign to death?”Mencius said , “ He who outrages the benevolence proper to his nature, is called a robber; he who outrages righteousness, is called a ruffian. The robber and ruffian we call a mere fellow. I have heard of the cutting off of the fellow Zhou, but I have not heard of the pu...