CAP. 3O7 The true Sage rests in that which gives rest, and not in that which does not give rest. The world rests in that which does not give rest, and not that which does give rest.

On his return to Sung, he visited Chuang Tzii and said, &s;As for living in poverty in a dirty hovel, earning a scanty subsistence by making sandals, with shrivelled face and yellow ears,-this I could not do. Interviewing a powerful ruler, with a retinue of a hundred carriages,-that is my forte.&s;