Famous quotes describing being with excellent people include:
1. When three people are together, there must be someone who can teach me. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. ——"The Analects of Confucius? Shuer" by Confucius's disciples and disciples in Spring and Autumn Period
Vernacular translation: If several people are walking together, there must be someone among them who is worthy of my imitation. You should choose their strengths to learn from, and pay attention to correcting their shortcomings.
2. When you see a virtuous person, think about them, and when you see a virtuous person, you should reflect on yourself. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Li Ren" by Confucius's disciples and disciples in the Spring and Autumn Period
Vernacular translation: When you see a person with virtue or talent, you should want to learn from him; when you see a person without virtue, your heart will change. You should reflect on whether you have made the same mistakes as him.
3. Living with good people is like entering a house of orchids and not smelling their fragrance for a long time, and then you will be transformed into them; living with unkind people is like entering a house of abalones and not smelling the smell for a long time. Also transformed into it. What is hidden in elixir is red, and what is hidden in lacquer is black. Therefore, a gentleman must be careful where he is. ——Han Wang Su's "Six Books of Confucius"
Vernacular translation: Associating with people of high moral character is like entering a room full of fragrant orchids. Over time, you will no longer be able to smell the orchids. The smell of salted fish is like entering a market that sells smelly salted fish. Over time, you no longer smell the smell of salted fish. This is also because you have become integrated with the smell. The taste blends into one. The place where cinnabar is hidden is red, and the place where paint is hidden is black. Therefore, a person with moral cultivation must carefully choose the friends and environment with which he gets along.
4. Those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black. ——Fu Xuan of Jin Dynasty, "Prince Shaofu's Admonitions"
Vernacular translation: Those who rely on cinnabar become red, those who rely on ink become black.
Meaning: It is a metaphor that getting close to good people can make people become good, and getting close to bad people can make people bad. It means that the objective environment has a great influence on people.
5. The fluffy hemp grows upright without support; the white sand grows black in nirvana. ——Pre-Qin Xun Kuang's "Xunzi Encouraging Learning"
Vernacular translation: The fluffy grass grows in the hemp field and can stand upright without support; when the white sand is mixed into the black soil, it will become like soil. black.
Meaning: It is a metaphor that you can become a good person even if you live in a good environment. Metaphor of the impact of the environment on people.
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