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

Analects of Confucius 17.25

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Of all people, girls and servants are the most difficult to behave to. If you are familiar with them, they lose their humility. If you maintain a reserve towards them, they are discontented.’

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