Confucian Analects · Analects 17.14
The Master said, 'To tell, as we go along, what we have heard on the way, is to cast away our virtue.'
Chinese · source text【十四章】子曰、道聽而塗說、德之棄也。
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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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