Chapter 4, Part 13 - Confucius

The Master said, "If a prince is able to govern his kingdom with the complaisance proper to the rules of propriety, what difficulty will he have? If he cannot govern it with that complaisance, what has he to do with the rules of propriety?"
~ James Legge translation via The Internet Classics Archive ~

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