Author: Confucius (孔夫子); translated by James Legge
Chi-lu asked what is due to the ghosts of the dead? The Master said, When we cannot do our duty to the living, how can we do it to the dead? He dared to ask about death. We know not life, said the Master, how can we know death?
先進第十一
BOOK XI
1. 子曰:「先進於禮樂,野人也;後進於禮樂,君子也。如用之,則吾從先進。」
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