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Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Book by Confucius · 3 quotes · Men, Superior Man, Superiors

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“From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.”

“The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.”