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Analects

論語

Twenty books of sayings and conversations

Learning, friendship and the work of becoming human, one conversation at a time.

Read all twenty books of the Analects in Classical Chinese beside a new English translation, with commentary and exact book-and-section links.

The Analects source text is public domain in the United States. Source archive: Project Gutenberg ebook 4094, The Chinese Classics - Volume 1: Confucian Analects. Project Gutenberg does not endorse this project. Section addresses follow the repaired Gutenberg/Legge edition (499 sections in 20 books); numbering can differ in other editions.