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

Analects of Confucius 3.17

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘The full observance of the rules of propriety in serving one’s prince is accounted by people to be flattery.’

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