Meaning: A gentleman treats all the people in the world with justice, without favoritism and favoritism, without preconceived ideas and selfishness; Villains form a clique for personal gain.

source: from the Analects of Confucius: Being the Second Ruler.

The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples. It was compiled by Confucius' disciples and re-disciples and was written in the early Warring States period. The book * * * consists of 2 chapters and 492 chapters. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius' political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles. Extended information

The Analects of Confucius is a classic of Confucianism, and it is a collection of recorded prose.

As a Confucian classic, The Analects of Confucius is profound and all-encompassing, and its thoughts mainly include three independent and closely dependent categories: ethical category-benevolence, social and political category-courtesy, cognitive methodology category-the golden 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 elaborated the ceremony as a reasonable social relationship and a norm to treat people and things, and then clarified the systematic methodology principle of "golden mean".

Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), namely Kong Qiu, was born in (now in Nishan Town, Qufu City, Jining City, Shandong Province), a famous thinker and educator in the late Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the founder of the Confucian School. His thoughts had a far-reaching influence on China and the world.

Reference: The Analects of Confucius-Baidu Encyclopedia