主不可以不坚 (主不可以不堅) zhǔ bù kě yǐ bù jiān

zhǔ bù kě yǐ bù jiān phrase a ruler cannot be irresolute
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Scroll 17, Chapter 78 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Queen 1999, p. 290)