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Confucianism -> Liji -> Ru Xing -> 16

天子'The scholar sometimes will not take the high office of being a minister of the son of Heaven,
诸侯 nor the lower office of serving the prince of a state;
he is watchful over himself in his retirement, and values a generous enlargement of mind,
while at the same time he is bold and resolute in his intercourse with others;
he learns extensively that he may know whatever should be done;
he makes himself acquainted with elegant accomplishments, and thus smoothes and polishes all his corners and angles;
although the offer were made to share a state with him, it would be no more to him than the small weights of a balance;
he will not take a ministry, he will not take an office
- such are the rules and conduct he prescribes to himself.


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