Confucian Analects · Analects 13.11
The Master said, '"If good men were to govern a country in succession for a hundred years, they would be able to transform the violently bad, and dispense with capital punishments." True indeed is this saying!'
Chinese · source text子曰、善人為邦百年、亦可以媵殘去殺矣、誠哉是言也。
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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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