韩非子认为,他的妻子比他先死是不对的:她的心灵祖先比她的丈夫活得更久。此外,妻子应该比丈夫活得更长。女性的内心更加完整。他们也更善于生活在孩子身上。他们从来不像一个人那样孤独。
(It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.)