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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 15: Book XV: WEI LING KUNG

Analects of Confucius 15.25

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Even in my early days, a historiographer would leave a blank in his text, and he who had a horse would lend him to another to ride. Now, alas! there are no such things.’

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