The way to become a gentleman is like refining gold - the more you forge it, the purer it becomes.
Confucian philosopher
The way to become a gentleman is like refining gold - the more you forge it, the purer it becomes.
Confucian philosopher
From his metaphorical teachings on self-cultivation
approx. 300 BCE
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