"Fireside Night Chat" Article 198:
A man's life is also straight, and if a man wants to live, he will be completely upright; the poor are always the same, and the poor are not poor, but the opposite is true. Eating needs a chopstick, and the chopsticks are only known to be manipulated by it, where you can understand the way of employing people; you need a pen to make a book, and the pen cannot necessarily be the work of calligraphy and painting, so you can understand your own reasoning.
Poverty is a common phenomenon of scholars, if a scholar is not satisfied with poverty, it is against common sense, he needs to use chopsticks to eat, and chopsticks are completely at the mercy of people's operation, so that he can understand the method of employing people; he needs to use a brush to write, but the brush cannot make the words neat, so he can also understand the truth that everything must be turned to himself.
