善
ぜん
good; goodness; right; virtue
JLPT N3 Common word
Meanings
Noun
good; goodness; right; virtue
Example sentences
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I bought this book at Kakuzen's.
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The best is often the enemy of the good.
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Render good for evil.
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What is beautiful is not always good.
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Competition is neither good nor evil in itself.
More examples (9)
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Some say the beauty is more important than virtue.
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It is "doubt" that turns good into bad.
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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
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We must seek after the true, the good and the beautiful.
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In the real world, good doesn't always triumph over evil.
科学的知識の増加とともに、人間の悪を行う力は、善を行う力に比例して増えてきた。
With every increase of scientific knowledge, man's power for evil is increased in the same proportion as his power for good.
科学者がつねに主張しているように、いかなる科学的発見もそれ自体は善でも悪でもない。
As scientists keep insisting, there is neither good nor bad in any scientific discovery.
知識は力であるが、それは善を行う力であるのと同時に、それと全く同じ程度に悪を行う力でもある。
Knowledge is power, but it is power for evil just as much as for good.
我我の行為を決するものは善でもなければ悪でもない。唯我我の好悪である。或は我我の快不快である。そうとしかわたしには考えられない。
It is neither evil nor good which determines our behaviour. It is our preferences, or even the ability to choose what suits us best. I've never thought otherwise.