The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

To supply an explicit moral tag to an evolving and compulsive dramatic image seems to me facile, impertinent and dishonest.

百姓如果没有粮食，就不能供君王役使。所以，粮食不可不努力耕种，用度不可不厉行节俭。