範氏之亡也，百姓有得鍾者，欲負而走，則鍾大不可負；以錘毀之，鍾況然有聲。恐人聞之而奪己也，遽掩其耳。惡人聞之，可也；惡己自聞之，悖也！

When the noble family of Fan was in exile, an ordinary person stole a bell and ran with it. The bell was too large to carry on his back, so he tried to hammer it to pieces. But the bell made a sonorous bang as he hammered it. He was afraid that other people would come to snatch the bell; hastily, he covered his ears.