For a true gentleman [junzi], learning is a matter of working on oneself. When slander and praise, glory and disgrace come, not only is his mind unmoved by such things, but he uses them as an occasion to refine and polish himself. Therefore, wherever a true gentleman goes, he is self-possessed, precisely because wherever he goes, he is learning.
–Wang Yang-Ming, in J. C. Cleary’s Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty
