Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1635
AUTHOR:
Confucius (c. 551479? B.C.)
QUOTATION:
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
ATTRIBUTION:
CONFUCIUS, Analects, book 2, chapter 24, Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean, trans. James Legge, p. 154 (1893, reprinted 1971).