1. Make friends and keep your word;

2. Brothers live in harmony and friends are sincere;

3. Keep your word and do what you want;

4. People who don't trust you don't know what they can do.

The book * * * consists of 2 chapters and 492 chapters, mainly in quotation style and supplemented by narrative style, which embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism.

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As a Confucian classic, The Analects is profound and all-encompassing, and its ideas mainly have three independent and closely dependent categories:

Ethical and moral category-benevolence, social and political category-courtesy, cognitive methodology category-the doctrine of the mean. Benevolence, first of all, is a true state in people's hearts. The ultimate compromise must be good, and this true and kind state is "benevolence".

Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded the ceremony as a reasonable social relationship and a norm to treat people and things, and then clarified the systematic methodology principle of the "golden mean". "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects.