public-mindedness

  • The Analects – Chapter 15.26

    The Master said, “I was still able to witness an age when historians left blanks in their records for uncertain matters, and when someone who owned a horse would lend it for others to ride. Alas, such virtues are gone today!”

  • The Analects – Chapter 14.18

    Gongshu Wenzi recommended his own retainer, Dafu Zhuan, to the ruler, and both were promoted together to serve as high ministers at court. When Confucius heard of this, he said, “He truly deserves the posthumous title ‘Wen’!”

  • Great Learning Chapter 14. Embrace the Worthy, Expel the Wicked

    The Qin Shi (in the Book of Documents) says:“If there is a minister – simple and sincere, possessing no special talents,yet his heart is broad, peaceful, and truly capacious.When others have ability, he rejoices as if it were his own;when others are virtuous and wise, he genuinely admires them,praising them even more fervently than…