Confucian Analects · Analects 4.6
1. The Master said, 'I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteem nothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practise virtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is not virtuous to approach his person. 2. 'Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient. 3. 'Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it.'
Chinese · source text【第六章】【一節】子曰、我未見好仁者、惡不仁者、好仁者、無以尚之、惡不仁者、其為仁矣、不使不仁者、加乎其身。【二節】有能一日用其力於仁矣乎、我未見力不足者。【三節】蓋有之矣、我未之見也。
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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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