Confucian Analects · Analects 7.16
The Master said, 'If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.'
Chinese · source text【十六章】子曰、加我數年、五十以學易、可以無大過矣。
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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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