Zi Yue: "A gentleman is a righteous person, and a villain is a profit." ”
Translations
Confucius said, "Gentlemen focus on morality, and villains only focus on interests." ”
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Gentlemen attach importance to morality, but not because they do not understand profit, but often give up profit for righteousness. Ordinary people are not ignorant of righteousness, but often disregard righteousness for the sake of profit.
In the Analects, sometimes the gentlemen and villains refer to rulers and people in terms of status; sometimes in terms of character, they refer to noble people and ordinary people. Whichever kind of villain it refers to, it does not contain too heavy a pejorative meaning, and it is different from what is called "villain" today.
Rulers should take up their moral responsibilities and set a good example for the people, and should not compete with the people for profit, but must first make the people rich before they can receive the effect of enlightenment. It is necessary and necessary for rulers to "be righteous", and it is normal and blameless for the people to "be righteous". Rulers should conform to the people's demands for wealth and help them to obtain them, so that they can know righteousness and be good.
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