Mo Zi thought for a while, and answered:

"Master, is there any good at all of talking much?"

One day, Zi Qin asked his master Mo Zi:

"If one talks too much, what good is there?"

"Toads and frogs croak and flies buzz day and night until they are parched and dry in the mouth, yet nobody listens to them. But a rooster in a chicken coop crows only a few times at dawn, and everyone knows that when it crows, daylight, is coming and the whole world will be awakened. Therefore, there is no use talking too much. What is important is to suit the words to the occasion, and say things which hit the nail on the head."

Then, he told Zi Qin: