The Master said, “A sage it is not mine to see; could I see a man of real talent and virtue, that would satisfy me.”
The Master said, “A good man it is not mine to see; could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
“Having not and yet affecting to have, empty and yet affecting to be full, straitened and yet affecting to be at ease:—it is difficult with such characteristics to have constancy.”