有人说:“如果用恩德来回报别人对自己的怨仇,行不行呢?”孔子说:“这样的话,你将用什么来报答别人对你的恩德呢?不如以公正对待怨仇,以恩德报答恩德。”
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.