At approximately age 60, the Chinese minister Lu Long (known later as Confucius), resigns from his high ministerial post at court and spends the last decade of his life traversing China and teaching morality, family values, the importance of inter–personal relations, justice and sincerity, with a sprinkling of statecraft.
Both the series “The Five Classics” (which he used) and the “Analects of Confucius” (which actually post–date him), although widely attributed to him, were actually written by others.