Confucian Analects · Analects 17.22
The Master said, 'Hard is it to deal with him, who will stuff himself with food the whole day, without applying his mind to anything good! Are there not gamesters and chess players? To be one of these would still be better than doing nothing at all.'
Chinese · source text【廿二章】子曰、飽食終日、無所用心、難矣哉、不有博弈者乎、為之猶賢乎已。
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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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