Source

The Great Learning (Daxue)

c. 5th–2nd century BCE (date debated)ConfucianismAncient (before 200 BCE)Book

A short Confucian text on self-cultivation and good government, originally a chapter of the Book of Rites. The Neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi made it one of the Four Books in the 12th century; tradition links it to Confucius and his disciple Zengzi.

Little is known for certain here; this background is thin and may be revised.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Learning
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sishu
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zengzi

Quotes (1)

“If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.”
— The Great Learning (inscription of King Tang), The Great Learning (Daxue), commentary ch. 2, tr. James Legge
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Ability grows with effort; measure yourself against who you were yesterday.Translation: public-domain translation (Legge)