When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is …

Confucius
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When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity. ✨ Confucius (2013). Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean, p.52, Courier Corporation
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