Legge Translation (1861)

Hui of Liuxia being chief minister of crime, was thrice dismissed from his office. Some one said to him: "Is it not yet time for you, sir, to leave this State?"

He replied: "Serving men in an upright way, where shall I go to, and not experience such a thrice-repeated dismissal? If I choose to serve men in a crooked way, what necessity is there for me to leave the country of my parents?"