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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 4: Book IV: LE JIN

Analects of Confucius 4.19

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘While his parents are alive, the son may not go abroad to a distance. If he does go abroad, he must have a fixed place to which he goes.’

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