If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will be good to the world.
Interpretation] When you are unwilling, you must improve your moral cultivation, and when you are ambitious, you must strive to let everyone in the world get benefits.
The rich cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent.
Interpretation] Wealth cannot make me arrogant and lascivious, poverty cannot make me change my temperament, and power cannot make me submit to my will.
A gentleman does not complain about the sky, and he does not care about people.
Interpretation] A moral person does not complain about God or others.
Those who are self-aggressors are not allowed to speak with them;
Those who abandon themselves must not do anything with others.
Interpretation] A person who harms himself cannot speak worthily with him;A person who gives up on himself cannot make a worthy career with him.
Poverty does not lose righteousness, and it does not deviate from the way.
Interpretation] When people are poor, they cannot lose their moral standards, and when they are developed, they cannot turn their backs on their own principles.
Those who are respectful do not insult others, and those who are thrifty do not take others.
Interpretation] A humble and polite person will not insult others at will, and a frugal and simple person will not plunder others.
The taboo of people is to be a good teacher.
Interpretation] The taboo of getting along with others is that you always like to be someone else's teacher.
Nothing is not done, nothing is desired.
Interpretation] Don't do what you shouldn't do, don't covet what doesn't belong to you.
One cannot be shameless.
Shameless, shameless.
Interpretation] People cannot be shameless, and the kind of shame that does not know shame is the real shame.
People have nothing to do, and then they can do something.
Interpretation] People can only make a difference if they know what they can't do, and if they want to make a difference, they must do something.
People tell them that they have a fault, and they are happy.
Interpretation] You will be happy to hear others point out your faults. It is said to accept opinions with an open mind.
The gentleman's guard, cultivating his body and the world is peaceful.
Interpretation] The ethics of a gentleman starts from self-cultivation, and then makes the world peaceful.
Those who are sincere, the way of heaven is also;
Those who think sincerely are also the way of people.
Interpretation] Integrity is the law of all things in nature, and the pursuit of integrity is the moral code of life.
Fu Zhi, the handsome of the air;
Qi, the body is also filled.
Interpretation] A person's mind directly affects a person's integrity, and integrity is an important support for the commander's body.
Woe to all those who ask for it.
Interpretation] Whether it is disaster or happiness, it is the result of one's own work.
A gentleman is not very kind to others.
Interpretation] The greatest thing a righteous man and a gentleman can do is to treat others with kindness.
Those who convince others with their strength are not convinced, and they are not supported by their strength;
Those who convince people with virtue will be happy and sincere in the center.
Interpretation] Relying on violence to make people obey is not true obedience, but the strength is not enough to resist;Only by relying on morality to make people obey will they be happy and convinced.
Those who love others will always love them, and those who respect others will always respect them.
Interpretation] He who loves others will also be loved by others;He who respects others, others will respect him.
Don't coerce the long, don't coerce the expensive, don't coerce brothers and friends.
Interpretation] (the principle of making friends) does not rely on age, does not rely on high status, does not rely on family wealth to make friends.
I have heard of love, and the gentleman is ashamed.
Interpretation] If the reputation exceeds the actual talent, the gentleman will be ashamed of it.
Heaven will descend on people, and they must first suffer their minds.
Interpretation] Before Heaven wants to place a heavy responsibility on someone, it must first temper his psychology and will.
Born in sorrow and died in peace.
Interpretation] Being in the midst of worries and calamities can make people or nations survive, and being in comfort and pleasure can make people or nations die.
Those who have wronged themselves have not been able to straighten others.
Interpretation] It is impossible to behave in a bad way, but try to teach others to be upright.
It is better to believe in the book than to have no book at all.
Interpretation] Reading should not be confined to books or superstitious books, but should be analyzed and looked at the problem dialectically.
The etiquette of indecency, the righteousness of injustice, the adult Buddha does.
Interpretation] Etiquette that does not conform to etiquette, behavior that does not conform to morality, a gentleman will not do.
Those who are adults do not lose their innocence.
Interpretation] A true gentleman will not lose that sincere, simple and pure heart.
Everyone can be Yao Shun.
Interpretation] Everyone can become a sage like Yao and Shun, and encourage people to make a difference.
A gentleman has lifelong worries, and there is no one-day trouble.
Interpretation] A gentleman often thinks about long-term events, and always reflects on himself, so that there will be no sudden disasters in front of him.
One day of violence, ten days of cold, and no one who can live.
Interpretation] (even if it is something that is very easy to grow) it is impossible to grow if it is exposed to the sun for one day and frozen for ten days. Exhort people to do things from the beginning to the end and be attentive.
I am good at nurturing my heroic spirit.
Interpretation] I am good at cultivating the heroic qi that I have, and cultivating the righteousness in my heart with an open mind.