Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Mencius, Wan Zhang II (5B.3) — translated by James Legge; Complete sentence in Mencius’s reply to Wan Chang about friendship across social rank. Historical English translation; not a modern paraphrase.
- Mencius, Wan Zhang II (5B.3) — translated by James Legge
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