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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 2: Book II: WEI CHANG

Analects of Confucius 2.1

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.’

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