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By Confucius
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 2.24.2, p. 18
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, Hongkong: at the author's; London: Trubner & Co., 1861)
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From the Analects, Analects 2.24 (Book II, chapter XXIV, paragraph 2), in James Legge's English translation (The Chinese Classics, vol. 1, Hongkong, 1861). Legge, not Confucius, chose the English words.