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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 8: Book VIII: T'AI-PO

Analects of Confucius 8.11

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Though a man have abilities as admirable as those of the Duke of Chau, yet if he be proud and niggardly, those other things are really not worth being looked at.’

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