It means: the predecessors were honest and didn't deceive me. It is the most difficult to get along with a woman who is as immoral as a villain and a person who is insidious and despicable. The women here don't mean all women, but those who have no morality.

Source: The Analects of Confucius, Chapter 17, Yang Huo

Original text: Confucius said: "Only women and villains are difficult to raise, and if they are close, they are inferior, and if they are far away, they will complain."

Confucius said: "It is the most difficult to get along with a woman who is as immoral as a villain and those who are insidious and despicable. When he is close to him, he doesn't know how to be humble and polite to others, and when others alienate him, he has resentment."

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Appreciation:

"Only women and villains are hard to support" is regarded as a classic saying of Confucius' disrespect for women, and it has also been defended; They say that the woman's "female" in this sentence is "you" with another meaning, and the villain is "child", but the real translation is overlapping, and Confucius talks repeatedly, and it is like swearing. Confucius, a literati, can't speak straightly or swear vulgarly. That doesn't make sense.

In fact, compared with the reality, Confucius' statement is nothing to make a fuss about. He is just the feeling of Confucius as a man for a while, which means that it is difficult to get along with the opposite sex and inferior people, and there is not much profound words.

Resources: Baidu Encyclopedia-Only women and villains are hard to raise.