Confucius

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"[A gentleman] does not grieve that people do not recognize his merits; he grieves at his own incapacities."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book XIV, section 32) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

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