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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 8: Book VIII: T'AI-PO

Analects of Confucius 8.9

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.’

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