Thu, May 6, 2027

It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people. Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through all the different ranks of the society.

Source： https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
Book I, Chapter I, paragraph 40

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

人主能安其民，則事其主如事其父母，故主有憂則憂之，有難則死之。主視民如土，則民不爲用，主有憂則不憂，有難則不死。故曰：「莫樂之則莫哀之，莫生之則莫死之。」

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E7%AE%A1%E5%AD%90/%E7%AC%AC64%E7%AF%87%E5%BD%A2%E5%8B%A2%E8%A7%A3
第64篇形勢解·第58则

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

大夫曰：「王者包含幷覆，普愛無私，不為近重施，不為遠遺恩。今俱是民也，俱是臣也，安危勞佚不齊，獨不當調邪？不念彼而獨計此，斯亦好議矣？緣邊之民，處寒苦之地，距強胡之難，烽燧一動，有沒身之累。故邊民百戰，而中國恬臥者，以邊郡為蔽扞也。詩云：『莫非王事，而我獨勞。』刺不均也。是以聖王懷四方獨苦，興師推卻胡、越，遠寇安災，散中國肥饒之余，以調邊境，邊境強，則中國安，中國安則晏然無事。何求而不默也？」

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%B9%BD%E9%90%B5%E8%AB%96/%E5%8D%B704
卷4·地廣第十六·第1则

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

上將發，太子悲泣數日，上曰：「今留汝鎮守，輔以俊賢，欲使天下識汝風采。夫為國之要，在於進賢退不肖，賞善罰惡，至公無私，汝當努力行此，悲泣何為！」命開府儀同三司高士廉攝太子太傅，與劉洎、馬周、少詹事張行成、右庶子高季輔同掌機務，輔太子。長孫無忌、岑文本與吏部尚書楊師道從行。壬辰，車駕發定州，親佩弓矢，手結雨衣於鞍後。命長孫元忌攝侍中，楊師道攝中書令。

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%B3%87%E6%B2%BB%E9%80%9A%E9%91%91/%E5%8D%B7197
卷197·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝中之下貞觀十九年（乙巳，公元六四五年）·第9则

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.

At length he came to me with the compliment that he found there was no such thing as carrying a public-spirited project through without my being concern'd in it. "For," says he, "I am often ask'd by those to whom I propose subscribing, Have you consulted Franklin upon this business? And what does he think of it? And when I tell them that I have not (supposing it rather out of your line), they do not subscribe, but say they will consider of it." I enquired into the nature and probable utility of his scheme, and receiving from him a very satisfactory explanation, I not only subscrib'd to it myself, but engag'd heartily in the design of procuring subscriptions from others. Previously, however, to the solicitation, I endeavoured to prepare the minds of the people by writing on the subject in the newspapers, which was my usual custom in such cases, but which he had omitted.

Source： https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148
Excerpt 57

This is a direct reading: the original and source are kept; commentary will be added later.