Confucian Analects · Analects 7.29
The Master said, 'Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.'
Chinese · source text子曰、仁遠乎哉、我欲仁、斯仁至矣。
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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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