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

Analects of Confucius 12.15

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.’

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