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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 12: Book XII: YEN YUAN

Analects of Confucius 12.14

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

Tsze-chang asked about government. The Master said, ‘The art of governing is to keep its affairs before the mind without weariness, and to practise them with undeviating consistency.’

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