Sayings from Chinese Belief Systems

Directions: Identify the likely

belief system that influences each saying.

1. Have no friends [that are not] not equal to yourself.
2. If you think that you do not have enough, then you will never have
enough.
3. Live and let live.
4. The inferior man is disrespectful to great men; he makes fun of wisdom.
5. While his parents are alive, a son may not move far away.
6. The best way to run the world is to leave it alone.
7. The progress of a superior person is upwards, the progress of an inferior
person is downwards.
8. A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.