QuoteQuest“父在，觀其志；父殁，觀其行；三年无改於父之道，可謂孝矣。”
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- Wikiquote: Confucius
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When your father is alive, observe his will. When your father is dead observe his former actions. If, for three years [after the death of your father] you do not change from the ways of your father, you can be called a 'real son (xiào/hsiao)'.
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Confucius. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Confucius. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius
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