China

Shuoyuan

說苑 (Garden of Persuasions)

Moral and political counsel lands better as a well-chosen anecdote about a historical figure than as an abstract maxim, so a court librarian anthologizes centuries of persuasion stories into a ready reference for the throne.

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  • Analects · compiled c. 5th-3rd century BC

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