景公見之曰：「嘻，夫子之祿寡耶？
When Lord Jing saw this, he said to him, “What is this?
何乘不佼之甚也！
Is your stipend insufficient, sir?
」晏子對曰：「賴君之賜，得以壽三族，及國交遊，皆得生焉。
Why is your equipage so unseemly?” “Thanks to what Your Lordship has bestowed on me,” Yanzi replied, “I have been able to safeguard the lives of those in the respective branches of my family; and my associates within the state have depended on this for their livelihoods as well.
臣得煖衣飽食，弊車駑馬，以奉其身，於臣足矣。
If I can obtain warm clothes, filling meals, a ramshackle carriage, and some broken-down horses to fulfill my personal needs, that is quite sufficient for me.” When Yanzi went out, Lord Jing ordered Liang Qiuju to deliver a handsome carriage and a team of four horses to him.
」晏子出，公使梁丘據遺之輅車乘馬，三返不受。
Though Liang went and returned three times, Yanzi would not accept them.
公不悅，趣召晏子，晏子至，公曰：「夫子不受，寡人亦不乘。
Displeased, Lord Jing summoned him forthwith.
」晏子對曰：「君使臣臨百官之吏，臣節其衣服飲食之養，126以先齊國之人，然猶恐其侈靡而不顧其行也。
When Yanzi arrived, he said, “If you will not accept my gift, sir, then I too will ride no more.” “Your Lordship has ordered me to direct the affairs of the hundred officers,” said Yanzi.
今輅車乘馬，君乘之上，臣亦乘之下，民之無義，侈其衣食，而不顧其行者，臣無以禁之。
“I am sparing in my use of clothes and food so that I may provide an example for the people of Qi, but in spite of this I still fear that they will be extravagant and have no regard for their behavior.
」遂讓不受也。
Now, as for this handsome carriage and team of horses, if the ruler rides in such conveyances and the officers below him do so as well, and the people, with no fine example before them, grow lavish in their clothes and food and have no regard for their behavior, then I will have no means to stop them.” He then refused the carriage and horses.