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Quotation from Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven) by Wu Cheng'en

“To pacify a nation, first attend to the King's illness.”

Wu Cheng'en (spoken by Chapter couplet)

Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter LXIX, trans. Timothy Richard (1913)

Portrait of Wu Cheng'en

A closing maxim after Sun diagnoses the grieving king of a western country by taking his pulse through a string.

Citation: "To pacify a nation, first attend to the King's illness." — Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter LXIX, trans. Timothy Richard (1913). (id journey-to-the-west-a-mission-to-heaven-q7)

Portrait: Xiyou, Anonymous, Public domain.

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