The Master said, 'When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.'

Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism

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Analects, Book VII, Chapter 21

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c. 5th century BCE

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