Confucius said: "Those who know well are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy." ("Yong Ye")

"Knowing ones" refers to those who know how to learn. "Good people" refers to people who like to learn, and "happy people" refer to people who enjoy learning. "Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy." It means that people who know how to learn are worse than those who are good at learning. Not as good as those who love learning; not as good as those who love learning as much as those who enjoy it.

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As a Confucian classic, "The Analects" is broad, profound and all-encompassing. The thoughts of "The Analects" mainly have three categories that are independent but closely interdependent: ethics and morality. Category - benevolence, social and political category - propriety, cognitive methodology category - golden mean.

Benevolence, first of all, is a true state deep in the human heart. The ultimate compromise must be goodness. This overall state of truth and goodness is "benevolence". Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then elaborated rites as a reasonable social relationship and norms for dealing with others that are adapted to and expresses benevolence, and then clarified the systematic methodological principle of "golden mean". "Benevolence" is the ideological core of "The Analects of Confucius".

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