The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy. β¨ Confucius (2016). Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated), p.2, Delphi Classics
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