该句使用比较结构说明不同程度给予的效果差异。
Life's path is bumpy and winding. However, no matter how winding life may be, time remains straight and is fair to everyone.
"Praising in absence" and "Giving in small measures": Praising someone to their face is not as profound as praising them behind their back; giving a little is often more effective than giving too much.
When you do something right, people often do not mention it; but when you do something wrong, people often never forget it.
Very few things are truly impossible. If something is not accomplished, it is often due to a lack of determination rather than a lack of conditions.
One can practice self-restraint in desires, but cannot live without them. One should regulate desires rather than eliminate them, and control desires rather than suppressing emotions; desire is the fulfillment of emotion, and the capacity for desire is itself a sign of health.
Things from which you learn are called training; things from which you learn nothing are called tempering.
人生的道路是坎坷且曲折的。但无论人生如何坎坷，时间始终是笔直的，且对每个人都是公平的。
"背而誉之"和"少而施之"：面而誉之，不如背而誉之，其人之感必深。多而施之，不若少而施之，其人之欲易逆。
当你做对事情时，人们往往不会提起；但当你做错事情时，人们却往往难以忘怀。
很少有事情是真正做不成。如果事情没办成，与其说是条件不足，倒不如说是决心不够。
人可以节欲，但不能无欲。应是节制欲望而非消除欲望，克制欲望而非压抑情感；欲望是情感的实现，它本身也是健康的一种标志。
能学到东西的事情是锻炼，学不到东西的事情则是磨练。