Confucian Analects · Analects 2.22
The Master said, 'I do not know how a man without truthfulness is to get on. How can a large carriage be made to go without the cross-bar for yoking the oxen to, or a small carriage without the arrangement for yoking the horses?'
Chinese · source text【廿二章】子曰、人而無信、不知其可也、大車無輗、小車無軏、其何以行之哉。
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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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