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

Analects of Confucius 17.3

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘There are only the wise of the highest class, and the stupid of the lowest class, who cannot be changed.’

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