CHAPTER VI
How a scholar may not become a dependent by accepting pay without office, and how the repeated presents of a prince to a scholar must be made.
1. Wan Chang said, "What is the reason that a scholar does not accept a stated support from a prince?" Mencius replied, "He does not presume to do so. When a prince loses his state, and then accepts a stated support from another prince, this is in accordance with propriety. But for a scholar to accept such support from any of the princes is not in accordance with propriety."