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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 5: Book V: KUNG-YE CH'ANG

Analects of Confucius 5.2

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said of Tsze-chien, ‘Of superior virtue indeed is such a man! If there were not virtuous men in Lu, how could this man have acquired this character?’

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