In the presence of a good man, think all the time how you may learn to equal him. In the… — Confucius
In the presence of a good man, think all the time how you may learn to equal him. In the presence of a bad man, turn your gaze within.
In the original Chinese
見賢思齊焉。 見不賢而內自省也。
Analects · 221 BC
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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.
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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.