From 《
论语·
学而》, the opening chapter of the Analects:
学而时习之，
不亦说乎？
有朋自远方来，
不亦乐乎？
人不知而不愠，
不亦君子乎？ (To learn and regularly practice, is that not a joy? Friends from afar, is that not a pleasure? Unrecognized yet unresentful, is that not a gentleman?). The third of Confucius’s three opening rhetorical questions, and the moral climax: inner equanimity in the absence of outer recognition.
