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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Miscellaneous Chapters -> The Robber Zhi -> 1.6

盗跖:“'Come forward, Qiu,' said Dao Zhi, greatly enraged.
Those who can be persuaded by considerations of gain, and to whom remonstrances may be addressed with success, are all ignorant, low, and ordinary people.
That I am tall and large, elegant and handsome, so that all who see me are pleased with me - this is an effect of the body left me by my parents.
Though you were not to praise me for it, do I not know it myself?
:‘。’And I have heard that he who likes to praise men to their face will also like to speak ill of them behind their back.
And when you tell me of a great wall and a multitudinous people, this is to try to persuade me by considerations of gain, and to cocker me as one of the ordinary people.
天下But how could such advantages last for long?
天下天子Of all great cities there is none so great as the whole kingdom, which was possessed by Yao and Shun, while their descendants (now) have not so much territory as would admit an awl.
Tang and Wu were both set up as the Sons of Heaven, but in after ages (their posterity) were cut off and extinguished - was not this because the gain of their position was so great a prize?


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