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Apr. 22nd, 2005 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikA little more Mengzi... (These are just fragments, that strike me as relatively comprehensible without a lot of involved explanation.)
"These people snatch their people's season, and make it so they can not weed and hoe and nurture their father and mother. Their father and mother are cold and starved, their elder and younger brothers, wives and children are all scattered and separate. They entrap and drown their people. When your highness goes there, you should reconnoiter. In any case, who would join with the King and be your rival?
"The ancients say, as for the humane, they lack opponents. King, do not doubt this."
"These people snatch their people's season, and make it so they can not weed and hoe and nurture their father and mother. Their father and mother are cold and starved, their elder and younger brothers, wives and children are all scattered and separate. They entrap and drown their people. When your highness goes there, you should reconnoiter. In any case, who would join with the King and be your rival?
"The ancients say, as for the humane, they lack opponents. King, do not doubt this."
