"The Master said, Give me a few more years, so that I may have spent a whole fifty in study, and believe that after all I should be fairly free from error."
It's awesome how humble Confucius is about the time it takes to truly master his life.
He says this as well: "The Master said, At fifteen set my heart upon learning. At thirty, had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty. I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with a docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no
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