Confucian Analects · Analects 11.7
1. When Yen Yuan died, Yen Lu begged the carriage of the Master to sell and get an outer shell for his son's coffin. 2. The Master said, 'Every one calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents. There was Li; when he died, he had a coffin but no outer shell. I would not walk on foot to get a shell for him, because, having followed in the rear of the great officers, it was not proper that I should walk on foot.'
Chinese · source text【第七章】【一節】顏淵死、顏路請子之車、以為之(guo3 木+享、與槨同)。【二節】子曰、才不才、亦各言其子也、鯉也死、有棺而無(guo3 木+享、與槨同)、吾不徒行以為之(guo3 木+享、與槨同)、以吾從大夫之後、不可徒行也。
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James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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