Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 5: 《公冶長》 Gong Ye Chang

《公冶長》 Passage 5.13

子貢曰:「夫子之文章,可得而聞也;夫子之言性與天道,不可得而聞也。」

Legge Translation (1861)

Zigong said: "The Master's personal displays of his principles and ordinary descriptions of them may be heard. His discourses about man's nature, and the way of Heaven, cannot be heard."
子貢 天命

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