Zigong Quote on Confucius’s Character: The Five Virtues of a True Gentleman

Zigong Quote: Our master is benign, upright, courteous, temperate, and complaisant and thus he gets his information. The master's mode of asking information! - is it not different from that of other men?

Our master is benign, upright, courteous, temperate, and complaisant and thus he gets his information. The master’s mode of asking information! – is it not different from that of other men?

夫子温、良、恭、俭、让以得之。夫子之求之也,其诸异乎人之求之与?

Source: The Analects, Xue Er I, Chapter 10

Author: Zigong / 子贡

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