Confucius. Book 2, Chapter 14.
Book 2, Wei Chang

1. The Master said, "For a man to sacrifice to a spirit which does not belong to him is flattery.

2. "To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

Text source: Lun Yu, The Confucian Analects. Translated by James Legge.

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