Confucian Analects · Analects 8.11
The Master said, 'Though a man have abilities as admirable as those of the Duke of Chau, yet if he be proud and niggardly, those other things are really not worth being looked at.'
Chinese · source text子曰、如有周公之才之美、使驕且吝、其餘不足觀也已。
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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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