This is a sentence that Mencius said to Gou Jian.
Source:
Mencius devoted himself to: "If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are up to it, you will help the world."
Mencius originally said, "If you are poor, you will be immune to it.". If you are competent, you will be beneficial to the world. " Later generations changed "both goodness" to "both economy".
Mencius is one of the Confucian classics in China, which records the thoughts and political strategies of Mencius, a thinker in the Warring States Period, and is compiled by Mencius and his disciples. Mencius occupies a very important position in Confucian classics and is one of the "Four Books".
Original text:
If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are up to it, you will help the world (qió ng zé dé shà n qí sh n, dá zé jiān shàn tiān xià).
Mencius said that Song Goujian said, "Is it easy to swim? My children travel: people know, but it is also noisy; People don't know, and they are embarrassed. "
He said, "How can you be so noisy?"
He said, "If you respect morality, music and righteousness, you can make a scene. Therefore, a scholar who is poor and disloyal can't get away from it. Poor and disloyal, so the scholar has his own way; People are not disappointed because they can't get rid of Tao. Ancient people, success, Zejia people; If you don't succeed, cultivate your morality and see the world. If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are good, you will help the world.
Moral:
The poor are all foreign affairs, and only morality is fundamental. Therefore, we can be honest and upright.
As for "poverty is the only way to protect yourself, and attainment is the best way to help the world", as Confucius said, "use is the way, and give up is the way to hide." It has become the motto of China intellectuals for more than 2,000 years and the most powerful psychological weapon, not only for others, for the world, but also for ourselves.
When you are poor and frustrated, it soothes your lost heart with the lofty spirit of "being alone"; When you have the opportunity to succeed in your official career, it provides a solid psychological foundation for you to be an official with the lofty sentiments of "being good at the world". Therefore, whether you are poor or rich, it is an absolutely effective psychological medicine and an invincible ideological weapon and magic weapon for intellectuals.