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Analects (Legge) · Book VII

Analects (Legge) · Book VII

Book VII 25

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1 The Master said, ‘A sage it is not mine to see; could I see a man of real talent and virtue, that would satisfy me.’

2 The Master said, ‘A good man it is not mine to see; could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

3 ‘Having not and yet affecting to have, empty and yet affecting to be full, straitened and yet affecting to be at ease:— it is difficult with such characteristics to have constancy.’