The Ecology of Virtue: Confucius on Curating Your Social World

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Confucius advised: “To cultivate virtue, serve the worthy ministers and befriend the virtuous scholars.”

When you are living in any state, take service with the most worthy among its great officers, and make friends of the most virtuous among its scholars.

居是邦也，事其大夫之贤者，友其士之仁者。

Source: The Analects, Wei Ling Gong XV, Chapter 10

Author: Confucius

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