The spirit of being a man: people can't look down on themselves, because everyone does something without it; But don't think too highly of yourself. This is to learn from the basics, so as to "achieve".
Source: The Analects of Confucius Xianwen
Confucius said, "Don't know my husband!" Zi Gong said, "Where is its ignorance?" Confucius said, "I don't complain about heaven, I don't care about people." If you go to school and get there, you will know me! "
Confucius said, "No one knows me!" Zi Gong said, "How can you say that no one knows you?" Confucius said: "I don't complain about heaven or people." I study etiquette and music to complete my mission. Only God knows me! "
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Don't complain about fate blindly, don't complain about others, and get the true meaning of life by learning common knowledge and understanding its philosophy. Confucius opposed blaming external factors for his failure and advocated self-blame. Gentlemen should strive to "cultivate themselves" and realize the common progress of society by improving their self-cultivation. This is the true feeling that Confucius took the world as his responsibility, thought hard all his life, longed to transform society with his talents, and traveled around the world all his life, but failed to realize his ambition, expressing his true feelings about fate. ?
The Analects of Confucius is an ancient literary work. Xian Wen comes from The Analects of Confucius, which consists of 44 chapters. The main contents are: some qualities that a gentleman must possess; Confucius' comments on various social phenomena at that time; Confucius put forward the concept of justice and benefit of "seeing benefit and forgetting righteousness".