Money status can't confuse you, it can't corrupt you, poverty can't change your ambition, and power and force can't make you yield and defect.

Note: Chaos.

The source "Mencius Wen Gong Xia": "Wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent. This is a gentleman. "

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The background of the above sentence is: once, a man named Jing Chun talked with Mencius. Jing Chun believes that Gongsun Yan, a famous lobbyist and Zhang Yi, a famous strategist of Wei State during the Warring States Period, can "be angry and afraid of princes, take things as they are, and destroy the world", and they are truly brave. Mencius said that these people "can't be courageous people" and then put forward his own opinions. The three sentences mentioned by Mencius are the standards of the brave: wealth is admired, poverty is hated, power is feared, but it cannot be moved by power, which shows a person's noble character of adhering to integrity and righteousness. This neatly arranged sentence is magnificent and powerful. Later, these three sentences became famous sayings of determination and discipline, and became the motto of many heroes and people with lofty ideals.