Confucian Analects · Analects 12.13
The Master said, 'In hearing litigations, I am like any other body. What is necessary, however, is to cause the people to have no litigations.'
Chinese · source text【十三章】子曰、聽訟、吾猶人也、必也、使無訟乎。
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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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