What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already…

What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already taken its course, one does not criticize; what already belongs to the past, one does not censure.

In the original Chinese

成事不说、遂事不谏、既往不咎。

Confucius

Analects · 221 BC

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Topic

Letting go of the past The past

Genre

Philosophical literature

Time

221 BC Ancient World

Person

Confucius

Provenance

Current citation

Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Original citation

Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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