Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Sima Qian


Sima Qian (c. 145-90 BCE)

"Saving others in distress, helping those who cannot help themselves - is this not what a benevolent man does?"
  • From the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji 124) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).


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