Quoting Confucius, Analects of Confucius, Ballantine Books, Ch. 11, 1988

A person of character is this Yan Hui! He has a bamboo bowl of rice to eat, a gourd of water to drink and a dirty little hovel in which to live. Other people would not be able to endure such hardship, yet for Hui it has no effect on his enjoyment. A person of character is this Yan Hui!
— Confucius, Analects of Confucius, Ballantine Books, Ch. 11, 1988 (via)

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