"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him."
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Source: James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.228
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