The Duke Ching of Ch'i had a thousand teams, each of four horses, but on the day of his death, the people did not praise him for a single virtue. Po-i and Shu-ch'i died of hunger at the foot of the Shau-yang mountains, and the people, down to the present time, praise them.Go here to read the introductory post to this serialized version of the Analects of Confucius.
"Is not that saying illustrated by this?"
~ James Legge translation via The Internet Classics Archive ~
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Chapter 16, Part 12 - Confucius
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