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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 14: Book XIV: HSIEN WAN

Analects of Confucius 14.7

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Superior men, and yet not always virtuous, there have been, alas! But there never has been a mean man, and, at the same time, virtuous.’

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