CHAPTER XXIX
Mencius said, "A man with definite aims to be accomplished may be compared to one digging a well.To dig the well to a depth of seventy-two cubits, andstop without reaching the spring, is after all throwing away the well."
CHAPTER XXX
1. Mencius said, "Benevolence and righteousness were natural to Yaou and Shun. T'ang and Woo made them their own. The five chiefs of the princes feigned them.
2. "Having borrowed them long and not returned them, how could it be known they did not own them?"