I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.
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ConfuciusAnalects, Book IV
About Confucius
Chinese teacher and philosopher whose sayings were collected in the Analects. (551-479 BC)
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- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Analects, Book II, tr. James Legge
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- What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.Analects, Book XV
- The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Analects, Book VI, tr. James Legge
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