7. "Thus it is that the superior man has a life-long anxiety and not one morning＇s calamity. As to what is matter of anxiety to him, that indeed be has.—He says, ＇Shun was a man, and I also am a man. But Shun became an example to all the kingdom, and hisconduct was worthy to be handed down to after ages,while I am nothing better than a villager." This indeed is the proper matter of anxiety to him. And in what way is he anxious about it?
忠, in the sense of 尽己, "doing one＇s utmost".
6. 难,—low. 3rd tone,=校, "to compare with". It is explained in the dict. with reference to this passage,by 责, "to charge", "to reprove".