From: The Analects of Confucius

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Confucius said: "In a threesome, there must be a teacher. Choose good and follow it, but change it if it is not good. "

Confucius said, "Being born with virtue is better than Ofuse. What should you give it? "

Confucius said, "Do the second sons and the third sons keep me a secret? I have nothing to hide! If I do nothing and don't work with two or three sons, it's Ye Qiu. "

Confucius said, "If three people walk together, one of them will be my teacher." I choose his good character to learn from him, and regard his bad place as a reference to get rid of my shortcomings. "

Confucius said, "God has given me virtue. What can Huan Xuan do to me? "

Confucius said, "Students, do you think I have something to hide from you? I have nothing to hide. I have nothing to do with you. I Kong Qiu is such a person. "

Confucius' statement that "there must be a teacher in a threesome" is highly praised by later intellectuals.

His spirit of learning from others with an open mind is valuable, but what is more valuable is that he should learn from both good and bad, which contains profound philosophy. His words are helpful to guide us to communicate with people, cultivate self-cultivation and increase our knowledge.

The author's ideological achievements:

Confucius constructed a complete ideological system of "virtue and virtue": he advocated the virtue and virtue of "benevolence and courtesy" at the individual level.

The ideological system of virtue and Taoism is based on the theory of goodness of human nature ("one yin and one yang refers to the Tao, and those who follow it are also good, and those who succeed are also people"), aiming at establishing the human pole ("three-pole Tao"), and connecting with human nature, heaven and tunnel, and the golden mean will become a complete methodological ideological system in due course.

Confucius' theory of benevolence embodies the spirit of human nature, while Confucius' theory of propriety embodies the spirit of etiquette, that is, order and system in the modern sense.

Humanism is the eternal theme of mankind, which is applicable to any society, any era and any government, and order and institutional society are the basic requirements for establishing a civilized human society.

Confucius' so-called "righteousness" is a social moral standard, and "profit" refers to people's pursuit of material interests. In the relationship between "righteousness" and "benefit", Confucius put "righteousness" in the first place.