My friends, why are you distressed by your master’s loss of office? The kingdom has long been without the principles of truth and right; Heaven is going to use your master as a bell with its wooden tongue.
二三子，何患于丧乎？天下之无道也久矣，天将以夫子为木铎。
Source: The Analects, Ba Yi III, Chapter 24
Speaker: The Border Warden at Yi (Regarding Confucius) / 仪封人 （论孔子）
