But such urging between father and son is the greatest injury to the kindness, which should prevail between them. But because he had offended his father, and was not permitted to approach him, he sent away his wife, and drove forth his son, and all his life receives no cherishing attention from them. When the plunderers withdrew, he sent word to him, saying, 'Repair the walls of my house. When the plunderers retired, the philosopher Tsang returned accordingly. Mencius said, 'The philosophers Tsang and Tsze-sze agreed in the principle of their conduct.
Sages are just like other men.
The disgraceful means which some men take to seek for their living, and for wealth. When their husband went out, he would get himself well filled with wine and flesh, and then return, and, on his wife's asking him with whom he ate and drank, they were sure to be all wealthy and honourable people. The wife informed the concubine, saying, 'When our good man goes out, he is sure to come back having partaken plentifully of wine and flesh. I asked with whom he ate and drank, and they are all, it seems, wealthy and honourable people. And yet no people of distinction ever come here.