直、德｜jUSTICE, gOOD
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《論語》的第十四書《憲問》——第三十六章：
“The Analects”, Book 14, Chapter 36:
或曰：「以德報怨，何如？」子曰：「何以報德？以[直₁]報怨，以[德₃]報[德₂]。」
Someone asked: “What about returning good for evil?”
*Confucius answered: “What to return for good then? We should return evil with justice and good for good.”
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Justice is also a kind of [iNTEGRITY₁] with a firm, fairness, generous, honest heart.
We should feel gratitude to those who [bESTOWED₃] and return [kINDNESS₂] to others, which is fair.
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*Confucius (551–479 BC) was an educator, philosopher and official of Lu State in the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty (ca. 1043-256 BC) during Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), he was the founder of Confucianism and developed his Confucian theory of the five virtue elements: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust.
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