Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 4: 《里仁》 Li Ren (Brotherliness)

《里仁》 Passage 4.14

子曰:「不患無位,患所以立;不患莫己知,求為可知也。」

Legge Translation (1861)

The Master said: "A man should say, 'I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.'"
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