《元史·列传·卷四十三》
文炳本为中书左丞，应当过问中书省事，阿合马再三再四请他去，他一直不肯。有人私下问他为什么如此，文炳说： 主上所托付于我的是维护国家根本，而非处理公文这些小事。
后或私问其故，文炳曰： 主上所付托者，在根本之重，非文移之细。
Wen Bing was originally the left minister of the Secretariat, and he should have been in charge of the affairs of the Secretariat. Ahema repeatedly invited him to go, but he refused. Someone asked him why in private, and Wen Bing said: "The emperor entrusted me with the task of safeguarding the fundamentals of the country, not with handling trivial matters such as official documents."