Confucius

Confucius (approximately 551-479 BCE)

"A gentleman takes as much trouble to discover what is right as lesser men take to discover what will pay."

• From The Analects of Confucius (Book IV, section 16) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989). 

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