4. Youthful Folly / Meng
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Success. It is not I who seek the youthful fool; the youthful fool seeks me. At the first divination, I inform him. If he asks two or three times, it is importunity; if he importunes, I give no information. Perseverance furthers.
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Line 6: Striking the fool. It is not beneficial to act as a predator; it is beneficial to guard against predators.
Line 5: Childlike folly. Good fortune.
Line 4: Entangled in folly. Humiliation.
Line 3: Do not take a maiden who, seeing a man of bronze, loses her self-possession. Nothing is gained.
Line 2: To bear with fools brings good fortune. To accept a woman brings good fortune. The son is capable of managing the household.
Line 1: To enlighten the fool, it is beneficial to apply discipline, removing the shackles of ignorance; yet to proceed with excessive constraint brings humiliation.