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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 19: Book XIX: TSZE-CHANG

Analects of Confucius 19.2

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

Tsze-chang said, ‘When a man holds fast to virtue, but without seeking to enlarge it, and believes right principles, but without firm sincerity, what account can be made of his existence or non-existence?’

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