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After Li Gonglin, Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety (Northern Song)
After Li Gonglin, Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety — Northern Song, public domain
A Collection of the Library · The Confucian Classics

The Doctrine of the Mean

《中庸》 The Doctrine of the Mean — on the unwobbling pivot of equilibrium and sincerity, one of the Four Books, ascribed to Zisi.

Confucian canon · translated by James Legge

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