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The paradigmatic Chinese sage expounds on leading an ethical and fulfilled life.

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The Master said, “There are those mean creatures! How impossible it is along with them to serve one’s prince!

“While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.

“When they are anxious lest such things should be lost, there is nothing to which they will not proceed.”

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