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子
虽若丘陵，弗为也。如枉道而从彼，何也？
且子过矣，枉己者，未有能直人者也。”
Chen Dai said to Mencius, “In not going to
wait upon any of the princes, you seem to me to be
standing on a small point. If now you were once
to wait upon them, the result might be so great
that you would make one of them sovereign, or, if
smaller, that you would make one of them chief of
all the other princes. Moreover, the History says,
‘By bending only one cubit, you make eight cubits
straight.’ It appears to me like a thing which might
be done.”
Mencius said, “Formerly, the duke Jing of Qi,
once when he was hunting, called his forester to him
by a flag. The forester would not come, and the duke
was going to kill him. With reference to this incident,
Confucius said, ‘The determined officer never
forgets that his end may be in a ditch or a stream;
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