Chapter

 1 2 |       them. If you will have me speak, let it be about royal government.'~
 2 2 |        king laughed and did not speak. Mencius resumed, 'Are you
 3 4 |          said to him, 'When men speak of "an ancient kingdom,"
 4 6 |         bad prince's court, nor speak with a bad man. To stand
 5 6 |       bad prince's court, or to speak with a bad man, would have
 6 7 |      nothing of which you might speak?'~2. On this, Ch'î Wâ remonstrated
 7 7 |          What occasion had I to speak to him about them?'~
 8 8 |      and sat down, and began to speak to him. Mencius gave him
 9 8 |       before I would venture to speak to you, and you, Master,
10 12|        beat him, wishing him to speak the language of Ch'û, it
11 12|    people beyond our school all speak of you as being fond of
12 13|           How is it possible to speak with those princes who are
13 13| themselves, it is impossible to speak. With those who throw themselves
14 14|    replied, 'Master, why do you speak such words?' 'How many days
15 14|         reason then that I thus speak?' 'My lodging-house was
16 16|          Mencius said, 'All who speak about the natures of things,
17 16|         him.~2. Mencius did not speak with him, so that he was
18 16|       only Mencius who does not speak to me, thereby slighting
19 16|      not change their places to speak with one another, nor may
20 18|   replied, 'No. Heaven does not speak. It simply showed its will
21 18|         I say, "Heaven does not speak. It simply indicated its
22 20|       is in a low situation, to speak of high matters is a crime.
23 28|     speaks what he ought not to speak, by guile of speech seeking
24 28|       end; and when he does not speak what he ought to speak,
25 28|      not speak what he ought to speak, by guile of silence seeking