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墨子:「天下君子Mozi said: Those gentlemen in the world who want to practise magnanimity and righteousness cannot but examine the origin of righteousness.
Since we want to examine the origin of righteousness, then where does it originate?
墨子:「Mozi said: Righteousness does not originate with the stupid and humble but with the honourable and wise.
How do we know it does not originate with the dull and humble but with the honourable and wise?
For, righteousness is the standard.
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How do we know righteousness is the standard?
天下For, with righteousness the world will be orderly
and without it the world will be disorderly.
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Therefore righteousness is known to be the standard.
As the dull and the humble
cannot make the standard, and only the wise and honourable can,
therefore I know righteousness does not come from the stupid and humble but from the honourable and wise.
Now who is honourable and who is wise?
Heaven is honourable, Heaven is wise.
So, then, righteousness must originate with Heaven.

1. 為 : Inserted. 孫詒讓《墨子閒詁》
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