The passage refers to a certain Zhong Shanfu 仲山甫, a virtuous minister of King Xuan of Zhou (r. 827 782 BCE).
So why, then, if we're so committed to equality, to judging people on virtue rather than appearance, do we still fall prey to the basest of reactions, such as my rather visceral response to virtuous, dreamy Prime Minister Trudeau?
"We have an important opportunity before us for the country to break this vicious cycle, and enter a virtuous cycle," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told lawmakers.
The main themes preached by the ministers include living a humble and virtuous life in the eyes of God and the idea of "judge not lest ye be judged".
A virtuous queen rescues her people by bravely subverting the scheme of her husband's evil prime minister.
The striking contrast was compared by some to the equally conspicuous difference between Italy's former prime minister, the flamboyant media mogul linked to scandal, Silvio Berlusconi, and his successor since November, the staid and virtuous churchgoing technocrat Mario Monti.
