《庄子·外篇·天地》
可是一辈子谗谄的人，一辈子阿谀的人，又只不过看作是用巧妙的譬喻和华丽的辞藻以博取众人的欢心，这样，终结和初始、根本和末节全都不能吻合。
而终身道人也，终身谀人也，合譬饰辞聚众也，是终始本末不相坐。
But the man who slanders all his life, and the man who flatters all his life, are simply thought of as using clever analogies and beautiful words to win people’s favor, and thus the end and the beginning, the root and the tip, fail to match.