I recommend Han Feizi for anyone interested. >Confucius died thinking himself a failure. He didn’t manage to get a ruler to adopt his solution long enough for

I recommend Han Feizi for anyone interested. >Confucius died thinking himself a failure. He didn’t manage to get a ruler to adopt his solution long enough for a full-scale test. Though he was able to gain the ears of a few statesmen, he lost political fights to other advisers and so fell from favor. No he didn't. He, Buddha and Socrates were around the same era. I believe it's called the axial age. Socrates and him both were not well regarded in their times and knew that they both would be more well liked after their deaths. I've read that they both thought their time would come later. I don't understand why they said he thought himself a failure. Nobody who travels around believing these philosophical ideas can feel themselves a failure and continue to hold these philosophical ideas.