The Master said, 'When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.'

Analects of Confucius · Book 7 7.21

Sanskrit: public domain · English tr. James Legge (public domain)

What it means

In any three people there is a teacher: copy the good, avoid the bad.

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