If a noble man is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation.
Confucian philosopher
If a noble man is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation.
Confucian philosopher
From his teachings on self-cultivation
approx. 300 BCE
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