Mencius said, 'If men of virtue and ability be not confided in, a State will become empty and void. Without the rules of propriety and distinctions of right, the high and the low will be thrown into confusion. When a prince endangers the altars of the spirits of the land and grain, he is changed, and another appointed in his place. Those two made themselves distinguished a hundred generations ago, and after a hundred generations, those who hear of them, are all aroused in this manner. Mencius observed, 'There is no harm in that.
Scholars are more exposed than others to suffer from the mouths of men.
This might have been said by Confucius. Mencius said, 'Anciently, men of virtue and talents by means of their own enlightenment made others enlightened. Now, the wild grass fills up your mind.' 1. I apprehend you will not do so a second time. There was a man of that name in Tsin, famous for his skill in seizing tigers.