| 《·》: | 子贡曰：“夫子温、良、恭、俭、让以得之。” |
| Zi Gong said, "Our master is benign, upright, courteous, temperate, and complaisant and thus he gets his information." |
| 《·》: | 地非不足，而俭于百里。 |
| The territory was indeed enough, but it was not more than 100 li. |
| 《·》: | 国奢，则示之以俭。 |
| Where there is extravagance in the administration of the state, he shows an example of economy. |
| 《》: | 庄、杨荡而不法，墨、晏俭而废礼，申、韩险而无化，邹衍迂而不信。 |
| Zhuang Zhou and Yang Zhu were reckless and unmethodical. Mo Di and Yan Ying were stingy and dispensed with li. Shen Buhai and Han Feizi were devious and had no power to transform people. Zou Yan was preposterous and not to be believed. |
| 《·》: | 其力时急而自养俭也。 |
| It was because they made full use of the seasons and were frugal in their own maintenance. |
| 《·》: | 吾谓鲁君曰：‘必服恭俭，拔出公忠之属，而无阿私，民孰敢不辑！’ |
| I said to him, "You must strive to be courteous and to exercise self-restraint; you must distinguish the public-spirited and loyal, and repress the cringing and selfish - who among the people will in that case dare not to be in harmony with you?" |
| 《》: | 一曰慈，二曰俭，三曰不敢为天下先。 |
| The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others. |
| 《·》: | 克勤于邦，克俭于家，不自满假，惟汝贤。 |
| Full of toilsome earnestness in the service of the country, and sparing in your expenditure on your family, and this without being full of yourself and elated - you (again.) show your superiority to other men. |
| 《·》: | 君子以行过乎恭，丧过乎哀，用过乎俭。 |
| (The trigram representing) a hill and that for thunder above it form Xiao Guo. The superior man, in accordance with this, in his conduct exceeds in humility, in mourning exceeds in sorrow, and in his expenditure exceeds in economy. |
| 《·》: | 礼恭而意俭，大齐信焉，而轻货财。 |
| 《·》: | 孔子曰：“中人之情，有馀则侈，不足则俭，无禁则淫，无度则失，纵欲则败。” |
| 《·》: | 土地广大者，守之以俭。 |
| 《》: | 君子恭而不难，安而不舒，逊而不谄，宽而不纵，惠而不俭，直而不径，亦可谓知矣。 |
| 《·》: | 礼者，盛不足节有馀，使丰年不奢，凶年不俭，贫富不相悬也。 |
| 《·》: | 广较自敛谓之俭，反俭为侈。 |
| 《·》: | 鲁有俭啬者，瓦鬲煮食食之，自谓其美。 |
| 《·》: | 今多违志俭养，约生以待终，终没之后，乃崇餝丧纪以言孝，盛飨宾旅以求名，诬善之徒，从而称之，此乱孝悌之真行，而误后生之痛者也。 |
| 《·》: | 《传》语曰：“尧、舜之俭，茅茨不剪，采椽不斫。” |
| 《·》: | 及即位为天子，躬自节俭，集上书囊以为前殿惟，常居明光宫听政。 |
| 《·》: | 宰予对曰：“自臣侍从夫子以来，窃见其言不离道，动不违仁，贵义尚德，清素好俭。” |
| 《·》: | 彻侈则人从俭。 |
| 《·》: | 恭俭谦约，所以自守。 |
| 《·》: | 故君之御下，民奢侈者，则应之以俭。 |
| 《·》: | 孝明临崩遗诏遵俭毋起寝庙，藏主于世祖庙。 |
| 《·》: | 今也纯俭。 |
| 《·》: | 俭薄无名，无名者贱轻也。 |
| 《》: | 二曰俭， |
| 《·》: | 由余对曰：“臣尝得闻之矣，常以俭得之，以奢失之。” |
| 《·》: | 人惰而侈则贫，力而俭则富。 |
| 《·》: | 俭宫室、台榭，则乐之。 |
| 《·》: | 明乎生死之分，通乎侈俭之适者也。 |
| 《·》: | 故明堂茅茨蒿柱，土阶三等，以见节俭。 |
| 《·》: | 昔晋国苦奢，文公以俭矫之，乃衣不重帛，食不兼肉，无几时，人皆大布之衣，脱粟之饭。 |
| 《·》: | 恭之与俭，敬之与傲，四者失之修。 |
| 《·》: | 成王既崩，二公率诸侯，以太子钊见于先王庙，申告以文王、武王之所以为王业之不易，务在节俭，毋多欲，以笃信临之，作顾命。 |
| 《》: | 二年，春，宋督攻孔氏，杀孔父而取其妻，公怒，督惧，遂弑殇公，君子以督为有无君之心，而后动于恶，故先书弑其君，会于稷，以成宋乱，为赂故，立华氏也，宋殇公立，十年十一战，民不堪命，孔父嘉为司马，督为大宰，故因民之不堪命，先宣言曰，司马则然，已杀孔父而弑殇公，召庄公于郑而立之，以亲郑，以郜大鼎赂公，齐陈郑皆有赂，故遂相宋公，夏，四月，取郜大鼎于宋，戊申，纳于大庙，非礼也，臧哀伯谏曰，君人者，将昭德塞违，以临照百官，犹惧或失之，故昭令德以示子孙，是以清庙茅屋，大路越席，大羹不致，粢食不凿，昭其俭也，衮，冕，黻，珽，带，裳，幅，舄，衡，紞，紘，綖，昭其度也，藻率，鞞，鞛，鞶，厉，游，缨，昭其数也，火，龙，黼，黻，昭其文也，五色比象，昭其物也，钖，鸾，和，铃，昭其声也，三辰旗旗，昭其明也，夫德，俭而有度，登降有数，文物以纪之，声明以发之，以临照百官，百官于是乎戒惧，而不敢易纪律，今灭德立违，而置其赂器于大庙，以明示百官，百官象之，其又何诛焉。 |
| 《·》: | 斧小不胜柯者亡，昔有郐君啬俭，减爵损禄，群臣卑让，上下不临，后郐小弱，禁罚不行，重氏伐之，郐君以亡。 |
| 《·》: | 摄而不彻，则明施舍以导之忠，明久长以导之信，明度量以导之义，明等级以导之礼，明恭俭以导之孝，明敬戒以导之事，明慈爱以导之仁，明昭利以导之文，明除害以导之武，明精意以导之罚，明正德以导之赏，明齐肃以耀之临。 |
| 《》: | 晏子对曰：“法其节俭则可，法其服，居其室，无益也。” |
| 《》: | 今越国富饶，君王节俭，请可报耻。 |
| 《·》: | 越王曰：“寡人躬行节俭，下士求贤，不使名过实，此寡人所能行也。” |
