Mencius. Book VII: Tsin Sin. Part I. Chapter XVII.
Legge's summary: A man has but to obey the law in himself.
Mencius said, 'Let a man not do what his own sense of righteousness tells him not to do, and let him not desire what his sense of righteousness tells him not to desire;-- to act thus is all he has to do.'
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