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

Analects of Confucius 15.34

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.’

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