(2) Right, then determine the severity; degree, then know the length.
(3) People do not do anything, and then they can do something.
(4) Although there are things that are easy to grow in the world, if they are violent in one day and cold in ten days, nothing can survive.
(5) Those who advance sharply will retreat quickly.
(6) The organ of the heart is thinking, and if you think, you can get it, and if you don’t think, you can’t get it.
7) Born in sorrow and died in happiness.
(8) Only benevolent people should be in high positions. Being unkind and holding a high position is spreading evil to others.
(9) If the emperor is unkind, he will not protect the world; if the princes are unkind, he will not protect the country; if the officials are unkind, they will not protect the ancestral temple; if the scholars and common people are unkind, they will not protect the four bodies.
Translation: If the emperor is not benevolent, he cannot preserve his empire; if the princes are not benevolent, they cannot preserve their country; if ministers and officials are not benevolent, they cannot preserve their ancestral temples; if ordinary people are not benevolent, they cannot preserve their own country. Body.
(10) If the king is benevolent, he will be invincible in the world.
(11) Save penalties, reduce taxes, and make farming easier (n^u).
(12) The benevolent are invincible.
(13) For a five-acre house with mulberry trees, a person in his fifties can wear silk clothes. Chickens, dolphins, dogs, and pigs will not lose their season. Those who are seventy years old can eat meat. If you do not take away a hundred acres of land, then a family of eight will not be hungry. I sincerely follow the teachings of Xiangxu and apply the meaning of filial piety and brotherhood. Those who are awarded white will live up to the road.
(14) By changing the fields and reducing taxes, the people can become rich.
(15) If a king is benevolent, he will never be unkind; if he is righteous, he will never be unjust; if he is upright, he will never be unjust.
(16) Those who enjoy the people's happiness will also enjoy their happiness; those who worry about the people's worries will also worry about their worries.
(17) Being benevolent is an honor, being unkind is a disgrace.
(18) Those who have permanent property have perseverance, and those who do not have perseverance have no perseverance. If you don't have perseverance, you will do everything you can to ward off evil spirits.
(19) Fight for land and kill people to fill the fields; fight for cities and kill people to fill the city. This is called taking advantage of the land and cannibalizing human flesh, and the crime is not punishable by death.
(20) If the king regards his ministers as his hands and feet, then the ministers will regard him as his heart; if the king regards his ministers as dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as a countryman; if the king regards his ministers as earth and mustard, then his ministers will regard him as his own countrymen. You are like a bandit.
(21) Fish is what I want, and bear’s paws are also what I want; you cannot have both, and you would give up fish and take bear’s paws. Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want. You cannot have both, and you have to sacrifice life for righteousness.
(22) Old people, I am old, and people are old; young people, I am young, and people are young.
(23) Those who have gained the right will get many help, while those who have lost the right will have little help. When there is little help, relatives will be there; when there is much help, the world will follow.
(24) The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.
(25) It is not benevolent to kill someone without sin, and it is not righteous to take something that does not exist.
(26) Those who rebel against benevolence are called "thieves", and those who rebel against righteousness are called "crippling". Those who are crippled thieves are called "one husband". I have heard of the execution of one husband, Zhou, but I have not heard of regicide.
(27) The wise are in office and the capable are in office.
(28) Respect the virtuous and enable the capable, and the heroes will reign.
(29) The people are the most important, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important.
(30) Civil matters cannot be postponed.
(31) If it does not violate the farming season, the grain will not be enough to eat; if the number of grains (shu^g()) is not entered into the pond (w&), the fish and turtles will not be able to eat; if the ax and catty enter the forest in time, Wood cannot be used for food. Grain, fish and turtles cannot be used for food. Wood cannot be used for food, so that people can live and die without regret.
(32) There are fat meat in the kitchen, fat horses in the stables, and the people have no regrets. Hungry, there are people dying of hunger in the wild, they lead the beasts to eat people.
(33) Jie and Zhou lost the world and lost their people; those who lost their people also lost their heart. : If you win the people, you will win the world; if you win the people, you will win the people; if you win the hearts of the people, you will win the people; if you win the people, you will win the world; if you win the hearts of the people, you will gather with them what you want, and if you do not do what you want, do not do them any harm.
(34) A wise king controls the people's property, so that they can serve their parents, feed their wives, and have enough to eat in happy years, and avoid death in bad years.
(35) Protect the people and be king. , No one can control it.
(36) The three treasures of the princes: land, people, and political affairs. Those who have precious stones and jade will surely suffer disaster.
(37) Heaven rains down on the people. , the king and the teacher can only be said to be favored by God.
(38) Everyone can be like Yao and Shun.
(39) The wife must insult herself, and then others. If you insult it, your family will be destroyed by yourself, and your descendants will destroy it; your country will be destroyed by yourself, and your descendants will be destroyed by it.
(40) Those who do not seek blessings or misfortunes by themselves
( 41) A gentleman does not complain about heaven or others.
(42) He cannot be corrupted by wealth, cannot be moved by poverty, and cannot be subdued by force.
(43) A man who commits suicide. , Don’t talk to anyone; don’t talk to someone who gives up on yourself.
(44) Don’t be good at keeping your desires low.
(45) Don’t look down upon others. See him as majestic.
(46) Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a great responsibility to a person, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his heart, and disturb his actions. Therefore, if you are tempted to be patient, you will benefit what you cannot do.
(47) A respectful person will not insult others, and a thrifty person will not take away from others.
(48) Those who love others will always love them. ; Those who respect others will always be respected.
(49) Do not rely on elders, do not rely on nobles, do not rely on brothers but be friends.
(50) The sage uses his enlightenment to make others enlighten, but now he uses his dimness to make others enlighten.
(51) In a prosperous year, the children will be many and unlucky; in a bad year, the children will be many and violent. This is not because of talents sent from heaven, but because they are addicted to their hearts.
(52) A promising person is like digging a well. If the well is dug nine times and fails to reach the spring, it is like abandoning the well.
(53) A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. Having both parents and brothers without any reason is one kind of happiness; to look up to Heaven and not be ashamed of others is the second kind of happiness; to obtain the world's talents and educate them is the third kind of happiness.
(54) If you are not ashamed, why should you be like a human being?
(55) If you are poor, you will be good for yourself; if you are rich, you will be good for the world.
(56) Those who speak poetry should not harm their words with words, nor harm their aspirations with words. To use one's will against one's will is to gain it.
(57) It is better to have no faith in the "Book" than to have no "Book" at all.