You know that whole Disapproving Asian Dad meme? Yeah, you do, this one: 

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You know where that stuff comes from, culturally speaking? It comes straight from the top, straight from the father of Eastern traditional ethics, from the father of all disappointed Asian fathers. 

Confucius was harsh, man. The guy could dish out burns like no other. Today we're gonna dive into a single paragraph of The Analects, a paragraph in which Confucius tears into one of his students for - horror of horrors - sleeping late. Confucius did not like late sleepers. Late sleepers were not just lazy, they were fundamentally and irreversibly pathetic. This is a burn so brutal, I winced reading it. 

Again, people, this blurb is in classical (we're talking ancient) Chinese here. The rules of grammar are a bit different, the vocabulary is a bit different, and the sentence structure is quite different than modern Chinese. I have a primer on 

宰予昼寝，子曰：“朽木不可雕也，粪土之墙不可圬也！于予与何诛？” 

子曰：“始吾于人也，听其言而信其行；今吾于人也，听其言而观其行。于予与改是。”

Zai Yu was sleeping in one morning, and Confucius said: "You can't carve rotten wood, and you can't whitewash a wall made of nightsoil. . 

Confucius said: "When I first started out, I 

