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The Analects

Sayings of Confucius and his disciples on learning, virtue, ritual and government.

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  1. 01The Analects 1學而第一↗
  2. 02The Analects 2爲政第二↗
  3. 03The Analects 3八佾第三↗
  4. 04The Analects 4里仁第四↗

The Analects, tr. James Legge
James Legge, 1893

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Translated by James Legge, The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893). Public domain. E-text from Project Gutenberg (#4094), checked word by word against scans of the 1893 printing (Internet Archive). · Source ↗

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