Is Goodness indeed so far away? If we really wanted Goodness, we should find that it was at our very side.

仁遠乎哉。我欲仁、斯仁至矣。

Confucius

Quoted in Analects

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Original Citation

Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

Current Citation

Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.