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

Analects of Confucius 19.21

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

Tsze-kung said, ‘The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes again, and all men look up to him.’

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