Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking ab…

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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. ✨ Confucius (2016). Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated), p.28, Delphi Classics
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