Etymology

• c. 479 BCE – 221 BCE, Analects of Confucius (論語/微子第十八)

  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？」

  Hui of Liuxia was a judge who had been demissed 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?" (Wiktionary translation)

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