Analects of Confucius 15.31

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘The object of the superior man is truth. Food is not his object. There is plowing;— even in that there is sometimes want. So with learning;— emolument may be found in it. The superior man is anxious lest he should not get truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.’