Esenţialul este să numeşti corect lucrurile. Dacă denumirile nu sînt corecte, cuvintele nu se mai potrivesc. Dacă cuvintele nu se mai potrivesc, treb… - Confucius

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Esenţialul este să numeşti corect lucrurile. Dacă denumirile nu sînt corecte, cuvintele nu se mai potrivesc. Dacă cuvintele nu se mai potrivesc, treburile statului merg prost. Dacă treburile statului merg prost, nici riturile şi muzica nu mai pot înflori. Dacă riturile şi muzica nu mai pot înflori, judecăţile şi pedepsele încetează să mai fie drepte. Dacă judecăţile şi pedepsele încetează să mai fie drepte, poporul nu mai ştie cum trebuie să se poarte.

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About Confucius

Confucius (traditionally 28 September 551 B.C. – 479 B.C.) was a Chinese social philosopher, whose teachings deeply influenced East Asian life and thought. "Confucius" is a latinization of the Chinese 孔夫子, Kong Fu Zi or K'ung-fu-tzu, literally "Master Kong", but he is usually referred to in China with a simpler version of this honorific as 孔子, Kongzi, or Kǒng Zǐ.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Anonymous Chinese painter of the Western Han period (Public domain / CC0)

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Native Name: 孔夫子
Alternative Names: Confucio Konfuzius Cheu-kong Chung-ni Cong-tse K'ung Chung-ni K'ung Fu-tse K'ung-fu-tzu K'ung-tzu Kong Fu Zi Kong Fuzi Kong Qiu Kong Zhongni Kongfuzi Kongqiu Kongzi Kung Chung-ni Kung Fu Tzu Kung Fu-tse Kungfutse Zhongni

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Original (Chinese)
子路曰:「衛君待子而為政,子將奚先?」子曰:「必也正名乎!」子路曰:「有是哉,子之迂也!奚其正?」子曰:「野哉由也!君子於其所不知,蓋闕如也。名不正,則言不順;言不順,則事不成;事不成,則禮樂不興;禮樂不興,則刑罰不中;刑罰不中,則民無所措手足。故君子名之必可言也,言之必可行也。君子於其言,無所苟而已矣。」
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