Sima Qian

 

Sima Qian (c. 145-90 BCE)

“Only after the day of death will right and wrong at last be determined.”

  • From Sima Qian’s letter to Ren An, included with the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji), by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).

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