句子使用了 while 引导的对比结构，清晰地呈现了两种相反境遇带来的截然不同的结果。
The worthy hold positions of power, and the capable hold posts of responsibility.
Honor the worthy and employ the capable, so that outstanding talents occupy their proper places.
The people are the most important, the spirits of the land and grain are next, and the ruler is the least.
Even the easiest things to grow in the world will not thrive if exposed to the sun for one day and frozen for ten.
Those who advance too sharply tend to retreat just as quickly.
The function of the mind is to think; if you think, you will find what you seek; if you do not think, you will not find it.
Hardship brings life, while ease and comfort lead to death.
Only the benevolent should hold high positions. If the unkind occupy high ranks, they spread their evil to the masses.
If the Son of Heaven is not benevolent, he cannot secure the Four Seas; if a feudal lord is not benevolent, he cannot secure his state; if a minister is not benevolent, he cannot secure his ancestral temple; if a scholar or commoner is not benevolent, he cannot even secure his own body.
If the ruler loves benevolence, there is no one in the world who can oppose him.
Reduce punishments, lighten taxes, and encourage deep plowing and careful weeding.
The benevolent have no enemies.
Plant mulberry trees in the five-mu residential plots, and those over fifty can wear silk. Raise chickens, pigs, and pigs without missing their breeding seasons, and those over seventy can eat meat. Do not take away the farming time for the hundred-mu fields, and families of several mouths will not go hungry. Carefully manage the schools and emphasize the principles of filial piety and fraternal respect, and the elderly will not have to carry heavy burdens on the roads.
Improve the fields, lighten the taxes, and the people can be made wealthy.
If the ruler is benevolent, none will fail to be benevolent; if the ruler is righteous, none will fail to be righteous; if the ruler is upright, none will fail to be upright.
Those who rejoice in the people's joys will have the people rejoice in their joys; those who worry about the people's worries will have the people worry about their worries.
Benevolence brings glory; lack of benevolence brings disgrace.
Those with stable property have stable minds; those without stable property do not have stable minds. If they lack stable minds, they will indulge in licentiousness and excess, doing whatever evil they can.
贤者在位，能者在职。
尊贤使能，俊杰在位。
民为贵，社稷次之，君为轻。
虽有天下易生之物，一日暴之，十日寒之，未有能生者也。
其进锐者，其退速。
心之官则思，思则得之，不思则不得也。
生于忧患而死于安乐也。
惟仁者宜在高位。不仁而在高位，是播其恶于众也。
天子不仁，不保四海；诸侯不仁，不保社稷；卿大夫不仁，不保宗庙；士庶人不仁，不保四体。
国君好仁，天下无敌焉。
省刑罚，薄税敛，深耕易耨。
仁者无敌。
五亩之宅，树之以桑，五十者可以衣帛矣。鸡豚狗彘之畜，无失其时，七十者可以食肉矣。百亩之田，勿夺其时，数口之家可以无饥矣。谨庠序之教，申之以孝悌之义，颁白者不负戴于道路矣。
易其田畴，薄其税敛，民可使富也。
君仁，莫不仁；君义，莫不义；君正，莫不正。
乐民之乐者，民亦乐其乐；忧民之忧者，民亦忧其忧。
仁则荣，不仁则辱。
有恒产者有恒心，无恒产者无恒心。苟无恒心，放辟邪侈，无不为已。