Confucian Analects · Analects 5.12
Tsze-kung 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.'
Chinese · source text【十二章】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。
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Confucius · English translation by James Legge · bilingual transcription
James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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