子曰：「人而不仁，如禮何？人而不仁，如樂何？」
Zǐ yuē: rén ér bù rén, rú lǐ hè? rén ér bù rén, rú yuè hè?
The Master said, "If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety?
If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?"—The Analects of Confucius, III.iii
(trans. James Legge)
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