The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success… — Confucius
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
In the original Chinese
仁者先難而後獲、可謂仁矣。
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.