《论衡·卷十二·量知篇》
才能和品德完备了，他们比起那些同样精心下过工夫的文吏，衡量起来要高明得多。
材尽德成，其比於文吏，亦雕琢者，程量多矣。
Once their talents and virtues are complete, they will be far more brilliant than those bureaucrats who have been equally diligent.