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Mohism -> Mozi -> Book 12 -> Esteem for Righteousness -> 1

墨子:「Mozi said: Of the multitude of things none is more valuable than righteousness.
Suppose we say to a person:
We shall give you a hat and shoes
on condition you let us cut off your hands and feet.
?』 Would he agree to this?
Of course, he will not agree.
Why?
Just because hats and shoes are not so valuable as hands and feet.
Again (if we say),
天下 we shall give you the whole world on condition you let us kill you.
?』 Would he agree to this?
Of course he will not agree.
Why?
天下Just because the world is not so valuable as one's person.
Yet people have struggled against one another for a single principle.
This shows righteousness is even more valuable than one's person.
Hence we say, of the multitude of things none is more valuable than righteousness.


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