“If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?”

— Confucius

Source: The Analects, Chapter III

Original

人而不仁、如禮何。人而不仁、如樂何。

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Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BC

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