Confucian Analects · Analects 5.21
When the Master was in Ch'an, he said, 'Let me return! Let me return! The little children of my school are ambitious and too hasty. They are accomplished and complete so far, but they do not know how to restrict and shape themselves.'
Chinese · source text【廿一章】子在陳曰、歸與歸與、吾黨之小子狂簡、斐然成章、不知所以裁之。
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Confucius · English translation by James Legge · bilingual transcription
James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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