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Salary

6.5

When Yuan Si was serving as a steward, he was offered a salary of nine hundred measures of grain, but he turned it down.

Confucius said, “Don’t turn it down! If you don’t need it, couldn’t you share it with the people in your village and the surrounding communities?”

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8.12

Confucius said, “It’s hard to find a person who studies for three years who doesn’t start thinking about getting a salary.”

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