To err and not correct it -- that is the real error.

過而不改、是謂過矣

Confucius

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Confucius

Born c. 551 BCE in Lu, Confucius built a moral system on ren, li, and xiao. The Analects became East Asia's intellectual bedrock, shaping ethics across the civilization sphere for twenty-five centuries.

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