Share this page: Is it not a pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice from time to time what has been learned? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar? Is one not a superior man if he does not feel hurt even though he does not feel recognized? -- Analects, Ch. 1, v. 1 (Wing-Tsit Chan, tr.) A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard. -- Analects, Ch. 4, v. 10 (Wing-Tsit Chan, tr.) The superior man understands righteousness; the inferior man understands profit. -- Analects, Ch. 4, v. 16 (Wing-Tsit Chan, tr.) Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you. -- Analects, Ch. 15, v. 23 (Wing-Tsit Chan, tr.) Share this page:

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