The Two Paths of the Scholar: Confucius’s Choice Between the Noble and the Petty

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Confucius said to Zi Xia: Be a scholar of the noble man, not of the petty man.

Do you be a scholar after the style of the superior man, and not after that of the mean man.

女为君子儒，无为小人儒。

Source: The Analects, Yong Ye VI, Chapter 13

Author: Confucius

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