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Is grammatically correct (NB the full stop) but its meaning remains a mystery... (I suspect a poor translation.)
I disagree with PaulQ; I would place commas after "person" and "well-being." It is also utter nonsense, and unlikely to have been said by Confucius, so I wonder why you are wasting your time with whether it is grammatical or not.
It seems to mean that becoming educated and reaching well-being are the ultimate goals in life and once a person has achieved them, there's nothing else for him/her to do.
I can see that -- but that statement is false, and the suggestion is utter nonsense.
The sign of a good education is that you realize how much you don't know - sdgraham
It's already correct, as has been stated in #2.
wellbeing - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
It's in the nature of aphorisms to be as concise as possible, hence the use of abstract words unsupported by explanation.
That is as maybe, but
(i) "having reached well-being" is not idiomatic at all - one does not "reach" well-being", and
(ii) sounds distinctly "Chinglish",
(iii) "well-being" seems to be used to mean some sort of "contentment" but it needs, even in an aphorism, to be clearer - mainly because the droplet of wisdom depends on the listener understand what state he needs to "reach".