Confucian Analects · Analects 14.2
1. 'When the love of superiority, boasting, resentments, and covetousness are repressed, this may be deemed perfect virtue.' 2. The Master said, 'This may be regarded as the achievement of what is difficult. But I do not know that it is to be deemed perfect virtue.'
Chinese · source text【第二章】【一節】克、伐、怨、欲、不行焉、可以為仁矣。【二節】子曰、可以為難矣、仁則吾不知也。
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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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