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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 3: Book III: PA YIH

Analects of Confucius 3.11

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

Some one asked the meaning of the great sacrifice. The Master said, ‘I do not know. He who knew its meaning would find it as easy to govern the kingdom as to look on this;— pointing to his palm.

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