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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 11: Book XI: HSIEN TSIN

Analects of Confucius 11.19

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

Tsze-chang asked what were the characteristics of

the GOOD man. The Master said, ‘He does not tread in the footsteps of others, but moreover, he does not enter the chamber of the sage.’

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