Yanamino渇しても盗泉の水を飲まず
かっしてもとうせんのみずをのまずkasshitemotousennomizuonomazu
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- better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth
- don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are
- refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty