論語
THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS
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View More →子曰：「后生可畏，焉知来者之不如今也？四十、五十而无闻焉，斯亦不足畏也已。」
The Master said: "The young are to be held in awe — how can one be sure that those who come after will not surpass those of today? Yet a man who has reached forty or fifty and still has no reputation worth speaking of — he, indeed, is no longer worthy of awe."