Chapter

 1 1 |        provided with counsels to profit my kingdom?'~3. Mencius
 2 1 |      your Majesty use that word "profit?" What I am provided with,
 3 1 |            What is to be done to profit my kingdom?" the great officers
 4 1 |            What is to be done to profit our families?" and the inferior
 5 1 |            What is to be done to profit our persons?" Superiors
 6 1 |          will try to snatch this profit the one from the other,
 7 1 |   righteousness be put last, and profit be put first, they will
 8 1 |       must you use that word -- "profit?".~1. Mencius, another day,
 9 23|       starting from the point of profit, offer your persuasive counsels
10 23|        with the consideration of profit so as to stop the movements
11 23|       pleasure in the pursuit of profit. Ministers will serve their
12 23|          their sovereign for the profit of which they cherish the
13 23| intercourse with this thought of profit cherished in their breasts.
14 23|        abandoning the thought of profit, will cherish the principles
15 23|          must you use that word "profit."'~1. When Mencius was residing