Author | Confucian Jun
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The Twenty-Four Histories is the general name of the twenty-four historical books written by various dynasties in ancient China, also known as the "Correct History".
Saying goes:
Taking people as a mirror can make clear what we have gained and lost; if we take history as a mirror, we can learn from what is good and what is wrong.
The following 8 sentences, taken from the "Twenty-Four Histories", are thought-provoking.
The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit! - "The Chronicle of History"
Translation:
People all over the world flock to the world for the sake of profit, and run for the sake of profit.
Reading Jun said:
To talk nakedly about interests is close to reason.
The people of the world gather together for profit and disperse by profit.
This is normal.
There is no need to blame, there is no need to be indignant.
Learning to play with interests is a sign of a person's maturity.
But don't forget that there is always something more precious than profit.
The wise abandon the short for the long, so that they can do their work. - The Book of the Later Han Dynasty
Smart people give up their weaknesses and play to their strengths in order to succeed.
Now we often say that we want to develop in an all-round way.
One must be both liberal arts and sciences, learn from each other's strengths, and be a generalist.
But the ancients believed that a person should learn to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and learn to play to his own advantages.
One trick, eat all over the sky.
Only by doing something to the extreme can we achieve ourselves.
To pass without changing is to be excessive. - Book of Han and The Chronicle of Emperor Cheng
Having a fault without repentance is called a fault.
Man is not Yao Shun, who can be perfect.
None of us are saints, and no one can live a lifetime without making mistakes.
Mistakes can be changed, and good is great!
As long as you can change and repent, you shouldn't blame it.
The wise see danger in the invisible; the wise see the misfortune before it starts. - "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei 28, Biography of Zhong Hui"
Wise men foresee dangers before they are formed, and wise men perceive them before they occur.
Those who are really powerful have insight before it happens.
True wisdom is the ability to see into the future.
A person can see the micro and grasp the general trend of the future in a small detail.
Only such a person can be smooth and worry-free and avoid disasters.
Thousands of people pointed out that they died without sickness. - The Biography of Wang Jia in the Book of Han
Cursed by the accusations of the people, even if there is no disease, he will die.
There is a dragon spring on the tongue, and there is no blood in the killing.
Irresponsible gossip will kill people.
The first generation of actressEs, Ruan Lingyu, and the seventeen-year-old boy Liu Xuezhou, are both victims.
Buddhists often talk about oral karma.
In the online world, public opinion is magnified a thousand times over, and every time the "keyboard man" says something hurtful, he is creating a career for himself.
Sooner or later, if you create more oral karma, you will repay yourself.
A gentleman stands tall, although the clouds are full of deeds, only sincerity and filial piety are the most important. - Book of Sui and Emperor Wenji
To stand in society, we need perfect cultivation and conduct, but sincerity and filial piety are the most important.
Integrity is the cornerstone of a person's foothold in society.
If integrity is lost, no matter how capable a person is, he will not be trusted by others.
Over time, it will lose its place.
The crow feeds back, and the lamb kneels to milk.
We are born to be nurtured by our parents, which is the grace of our parents.
If he doesn't know how to give back to his parents, he doesn't know how to be grateful.
What about others?
Who wants to work with an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf?
Wisdom is enough to refuse advice, and words are enough to make things wrong. - "History of Yin Benji"
People who are too smart can easily reject other people's suggestions, and people who are too talkative can always cover up their mistakes with clever words.
Being too smart isn't necessarily a good thing.
Stupid people, although they walk slowly, but are open and straightforward, are not easy to go astray.
The knowledge of the poor must not be forgotten, and the wife of the chaff does not go to church. - The Book of the Later Han Dynasty
Help you through the tough times when you need it most, such a friend is trustworthy and cannot be forgotten.
With you hand in hand, the wife who has gone through the ups and downs is the most precious and cannot be abandoned.
The ancients said: Rich and easy to wife, noble and easy to friends.
That is to say, after a person is rich, because his life is comfortable, he has money in his hands, and he thinks of luxury and luxury, and some things that he did not think about before are moved.
Disgusted with his wife is not pleasing to the eye, he wants to change to a young and beautiful.
Dislike friends are not qualified, to change some identity to deserve their own.
However, after changing back and forth, I found that these lovers and friends gathered because of profit and scattered because of profit.
When they had an accident, most of these people ran away.
The knowledge of the poor must not be forgotten, and the wife of the chaff does not go to church.
Those who work with you to suffer and experience ups and downs are the most precious and must not be abandoned.
Over the past five thousand years of Chinese civilization, the wisdom of the ancients has condensed into a sentence of truth.
Things turn to the stars, the vicissitudes of the sea, these classic famous sentences are still shining, worth each of us to taste carefully.
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