“A young man should serve his parents at home and be respectful to elders outside his home. He should be earnest and truthful, loving all, but become intimate with humaneness.”
These are some of the earliest recorded words of Confucius in the Analects — placed almost at the opening of the text, spoken to young men beginning their formation. Confucius believed character was built through ordered relationships, starting at home.
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