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.

三人行,必有我師焉:擇其善者而從之,其不善者而改之。

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§ 21, as translated by James Legge | Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it.

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