Mencius. Book IV: Lî Lâu. Part II. Chapter XIII.
Legge's summary: Filial piety seen in the obsequies of parents.
Mencius said, 'The nourishment of parents when living is not sufficient to be accounted the great thing. It is only in the performing their obsequies when dead that we have what can be considered the great thing.'
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