If we are not yet able to serve man, how can we serve spiritual beings?... If we do not… — Confucius
If we are not yet able to serve man, how can we serve spiritual beings?... If we do not yet know about life how can we know about death?
Analects · 221 BC
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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.
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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.