Equality in friendship

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Have no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber.

Confucius

Quoted in Analects

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Equality in friendship Equality Friendship

Speaker

Confucius

Source

Analects

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Chinese

Time

221 BC 220s BC 3rd century BC

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Original Citation

Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

Current Citation

Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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

Mencius

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Equality in friendship Friendship

Author

Mencius

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Chinese

Time

300 BC 300s BC 4th century BC

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Original Citation

Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 5.

Current Citation

Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 5.