Confucian Analects

Hsien asked what was shameful...

The Master said, 'The scholar...

'When the love of superiority...

'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.'

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Hsien asked what was shameful...

The Master said, 'The scholar...