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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions… — Mencius

Philosophical literature

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

In the original Chinese

友也者，友其德也，不可以有挾也

Mencius
300 BC
★ 1.3
Provenance
Current citation
Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 5.
Original citation
Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 5.

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