Mencius. Book IV: Lî Lâu. Part II. Chapter XXXII.
Legge's summary: Sages are just like other men.
The officer Ch'û said to Mencius, 'Master, the king sent persons to spy out whether you were really different from other men.' Mencius said, 'How should I be different from other men? Yâo and Shun were just the same as other men.'
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