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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 4: Book IV: LE JIN

Analects of Confucius 4.11

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort. The superior man thinks of the sanctions of law; the small man thinks of favours which he may receive.’

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