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《五百卷第八 - Five Hundred Years》 | English translation: Jeffrey S. Bullock [?] | Library Resources |
| 1 | 五百卷第... : | 或问：“五百岁而圣人出，有诸？”曰：“尧、舜、禹，君臣也而并；文、武、周公，父子也而处。汤、孔子数百岁而生。因往以推来，虽千一不可知也。” |
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Someone asked: Every five hundred years a sage appears. Is there truth in this? Yangzi said: Yao, Shun, and Yu were rulers and subjects to one another, all [during] the same era. Wen, Wu, and the Duke of Zhou, were fathers and sons, all during the same era. But Tang and Confucius were born several centuries removed from each other. As for using the past to forecast what is to come, whether it be a thousand years or one year, one cannot know. |
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