Chuang Tzu 6.3

Being such, their minds were free from all thought; their demeanor was still and unmoved; their foreheads beamed simplicity. 

Whatever coldness came from them was like that of autumn; whatever warmth came from them was like that of spring. Their joy and anger assimilated to what we see in the four seasons. 

They did in regard to all things what was suitable, and no one could know how far their action would go. Therefore the sagely man might, in his conduct of war, destroy a state without losing the hearts of the people; his benefits and favors might extend to a myriad generations without his being a lover of men. 

Hence he who tries to share his joys with others is not a sagely man; he who manifests affection is not benevolent; he who observes times and seasons to regulate his conduct is not a man of wisdom; he to whom profit and injury are not the same is not a superior man; he who acts for the sake of the name of doing so, and loses his proper self is not the right scholar; and he who throws away his person in a way which is not the true way cannot command the service of others. 

Such men as Hû Pû-kieh, Wû Kwang, Po-ì, Shû-khì, the count of Kì, Hsü-yü, Kì Thâ, and Shan-thû Tì, all did service for other men, and sought to secure for them what they desired, not seeking their own pleasure. 

IMAGE: Ambrose McEvoy, The Seasons (c. 1904)