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

Analects of Confucius 3.20

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘The Kwan Tsu is expressive of enjoyment without being licentious, and of grief without being hurtfully excessive.’

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