Confucius

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"The Good Man rests content with Goodness; he that is merely wise pursues Goodness in the belief that it pays to do so."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book IV, section 2) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989). 

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