The Chinese are certainly as constant in their hates as in their friendships.

To use a phrase from their own language, if they love a man, they love him to the life; if they hate a man they hate him to the death.

As we have already noted, the Old Philosopher urged men to requite evil with good; but Confucius, who was only a mortal himself, and knew the limitations of mortality, substituted for an ideal doctrine the more practical injunction to requite evil with justice.

It is to be feared that the Chinese people fall short in practice even of this lower standard.

"Be just to your enemy" is a common enough maxim; but one for which only a moderate application can be claimed.
It has often been urged against the Chinese that they have very little idea of time.