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Confucius on Kindness

551 BC–479 BC China

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Recompense hatred with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

What can a man do with the rites who is not benevolent? What can a man do with music who is not benevolent.

Charity is that rational and constant affection, which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

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