Chapter 14, Part 2 - Confucius

"When the love of superiority, boasting, resentments, and covetousness are repressed, this may be deemed perfect virtue."

The Master said, "This may be regarded as the achievement of what is difficult. But I do not know that it is to be deemed perfect virtue."
~ James Legge translation via The Internet Classics Archive ~

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