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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 9: Book IX: TSZE HAN

Analects of Confucius 9.7

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it.’

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