Confucian Analects · Analects 15.32
1. The Master said, 'When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. 2. 'When his knowledge is sufficient to attain, and he has virtue enough to hold fast, if he cannot govern with dignity, the people will not respect him. 3. 'When his knowledge is sufficient to attain, and he has virtue enough to hold fast; when he governs also with dignity, yet if he try to move the people contrary to the rules of propriety:-- full excellence is not reached.'
Chinese · source text【卅二章】【一節】子曰、知及之、仁不能守之、雖得之、必失之。【二節】知及之、仁能守之、不莊以蒞之、則民不敬。【三節】知及之、仁能守之、莊以蒞之、動之不以禮、未善也。
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James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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