The good leader and the good person in Confucius’ Analects VI

5. Further Stoicising observations on the ancient Chinese classic

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Confucius lived in a time of great disorder in the middle Kingdom, Zhongua, China. His assessments of the times are redolent with our own. In Analects VI, he says:

Whoever has not the glib utterance of the priest T’o, as well…