Confucian Analects · Analects 7.35
The Master said, 'Extravagance leads to insubordination, and parsimony to meanness. It is better to be mean than to be insubordinate.'
Chinese · source text【卅五章】子曰、奢則不孫、儉則固、與其不孫也、寧固。
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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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