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Confucian Analects · Analects 7.5

The Master said, 'Extreme is my decay. For a long time, I have not dreamed, as I was wont to do, that I saw the duke of Chau.'
Chinese · source text【第五章】子曰、甚矣吾衰也、久矣、吾不復夢見周公。
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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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