From the famous saying, "A benevolent person loves others, and a polite person respects others."

Meaning: A kind-hearted person knows how to love others, and a polite person knows how to respect others.

This is a typical passage that encourages people to love and respect each other. The sentence also emphasizes self-examination in personal cultivation. This sentence comes from a line in Mencius's "The Benevolent Man Loves Others". Mencius is a famous thinker, politician, successor of Confucius' theory, and an important representative of Confucianism. ?

According to legend, Mencius was a descendant of the Meng Sun family, a nobleman of the Lu State. He lost his father when he was young and his family was poor. For political opinions, he visited Wei, Qi, Song, Teng and Lu. And he inherited Confucius' thought of "benevolence" and developed it into the thought of "benevolent government". ?