说苑/齊景公遊於蔞，聞晏子卒，公乘輿素服馹而驅之，自以為遲，下車而驅，知不若車之速，則又乘，比至於國者，四

Donning the white garb of mourning, he mounted his carriage and hastened back, changing horses at each relay station. Feeling that the carriage was moving too slowly, he dismounted and walked swiftly, but, finding then that this was not as fast as riding, he mounted the carriage again. As the carriage approached the capital, he dismounted and went on foot four times, weeping as he walked.

Upon arrival he laid his head on the corpse and moaned loudly, saying, “Sir, you scrutinized my actions day and night without omitting the tiniest detail, but I continued to behave recklessly and did not control my excesses so that the people have suffered a long accumulation of injustices and hardships.