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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 17: Book XVII: YANG HO

Analects of Confucius 17.22

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Hard is it to deal with him, who will stuff himself with food the whole day, without applying his mind to anything good! Are there not gamesters and chess players? To be one of these would still be better than doing nothing at all.’

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