廣弘明集 5.22

English (machine translation) 5.22

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5.22

If so, then great beauty and great goodness are known by all under Heaven; how can it be said that 'ugliness already exists'? If false beauty is not beauty, and pretended goodness is not goodness, or what is praised as beautiful exceeds true beauty, and what is considered good departs from the mean—such things are what worldly teachings abhor, and what the sage kings sincerely denounced; the world naturally knows this as well. Regarding this saying:

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廣弘明集 — Classical Chinese