Another answer Confucius gave to the question about benevolence was, ‘Love your fellow men’ (XII.22). As he did not elaborate, his meaning is not very clear. But fortunately he used this phrase again on two other occasions. In I.5 he said, ‘In guiding a state of a thousand chariots…avoid excesses in expenditure and love your fellow men; employ the labour of the common people in the right seasons.’ Again, the Master, according to Tzu-yu, once said ‘that the gentleman instructed in the Way loves his fellow men and that the small man instructed in the Way is easy to command’ (XVII.4).
