This sentence means: "Confucius said: 'When you see a wise person, you should learn from him and emulate him; when you see an unworthy person, you should reflect on yourself to see if you have made similar mistakes to him. . '"

This sentence comes from the "Analects of Confucius·Liren Chapter", a collection of quotations compiled by Confucius's disciples and his disciples during the Warring States Period, which recorded the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples. This chapter includes 26 chapters. The main content involves the relationship between righteousness and benefit, personal moral cultivation, filial piety to parents, and the difference between a gentleman and a villain. This article includes several important categories, principles and theories of Confucianism, which have had a great influence on later generations.

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"The Analects"

"The Analects" is one of the Confucian classics. It is a collection of quotation-style prose that mainly records words. It records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples in the form of quotations and dialogues, embodying Confucius' political, aesthetic, moral ethics and utilitarian values.

The content of "The Analects of Confucius" involves politics, education, literature, philosophy, and principles of conduct in life. As early as the period when Confucius set up a lecture forum in the late Spring and Autumn Period, its main content had been initially created; after Confucius's death, his disciples and re-disciples passed down his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded these orally recited quotations, words and deeds. Therefore, It is called "Lun"; "The Analects" mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "Yu".