」孫伯曰：「晚矣，子之知之也！
Have you seen this too?” “You are late in coming to this realization,” scoffed Sun Bo.
吾何為不知？
“How could I not have seen this?” “Then why didn’t you admonish the king about it?” asked Shi Yi.
」石益曰：「然則子何不以諫？
“In former times,” said Sun Bo, “Jie executed the one who admonished him, and Zhòu had sages burned and had Bi Gan’s heart cut open. The wife of the chief of the Yuan clan66 let the main thread in a piece of weaving get out of place.
」孫伯曰：「昔桀罪諫者；紂焚聖人，剖王子比干之心。
When a secondary wife pointed this out, she was angry and drove her from the household.
袁氏之婦，絡而失其紀，其妾告之，怒，棄之。
夫亡者豈斯人知其過哉！」
How can one expect that people headed for destruction will recognize their own mistakes!