Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 3: 《八佾》 Ba Yi (Eight Rows)

《八佾》 Passage 3.3

子曰:「人而不仁,如禮何?人而不仁,如樂何?」

Legge Translation (1861)

The Master said: "If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?"

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