He who understands the ceremonies of the sacrifices to Heaven and Earth [...] would find the government of a kingdom as easy as to look into his palm!
Confucius, The Doctrine of the Mean, xix, 6.
(Legge, James, The Chinese Classics, 7 vols, London: Trubner & Co., 1861, vol. 1, p. 268.)
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