《吕氏春秋·纪·孟春纪》
有个荆人丢了弓，却不肯去寻找，他说， 荆人丢了它，反正还被荆人得到，又何必寻找呢？ 
荆人有遗弓者，而不肯索，曰： 荆人遗之，荆人得之，又何索焉？ 
A Jing man lost his bow, but he refused to look for it, saying, "If a Jing man loses it, it will be found by a Jing man anyway, so why bother looking for it?"