柳下惠

The Analects:

柳下惠為士師，三黜。人曰：「子未可以去乎？」曰：「直道而事人，焉往而不三黜？枉道而事人，何必去父母之邦？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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柳下惠为士师，三黜。人曰：「子未可以去乎？」曰：「直道而事人，焉往而不三黜？枉道而事人，何必去父母之邦？」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, Wiktionary translation

Liǔxiàhuì wéi shìshī, sānchù. Rén yuē: “Zǐ wèi kěyǐ qù hū?” Yuē: “Zhí dào ér shì rén, yān wǎng ér bù sānchù? Wǎng dào ér shì rén, hébì qù fùmǔ zhī bāng?” [Pinyin]

Hui of Liuxia was a judge who had been dismissed from office on a number of occasions. People said, "Can't you leave?" He said, "If I render service to people while on the straight (moral) path, how do you know that I will not be dismissed again after going somewhere else? If I render service to people while on a crooked (moral) path, why would I need to leave the homeland of my parents?"

柳下惠

1. Liuxia Hui (720 B.C.E. to 621 B.C.E.)

柳下惠

1. (figurative) a faithful and upright person (usually refers to husbands)