If you see the bright side, you must save yourself. If you see the bad side, you must reflect on yourself. Hello, be good to yourself; If you are not good at it, you are evil to yourself. So, either my people or my teachers; It's me, my friend; Those who flatter me are thieves. Therefore, a gentleman takes his teacher as his friend, so that he hates his thief. If you are good but not satisfied, you can quit if you are admonished. Although you want not to advance, how can you get it? On the contrary, villains are chaotic and wicked people are not themselves, and they are corrupt and want to be virtuous. They are like tigers and wolves, acting like animals, and the thief of the wicked is themselves. Flatterers kiss, remonstrate and argue, correct them as laughter, and be loyal as thieves. Although you want to live, how can you get it? "Poetry" said: "It's a pity. If you ask for it, you will violate it; If you don't care about it, you will rely on it. " This is also called.

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This passage describes people's attitudes towards good and evil, and points out that only when a gentleman takes his closest relatives and friends as his mentor and friend can he succeed.

The level of goodness is the rule of qi and health after Peng Zu, and the self-cultivation after Yao and Yu is equally famous. We should keep pace with the times, help the poor and be polite and trustworthy. Where blood, will and care are used, it will be cured with ceremony, and it will be chaotic if it is not used; Eating, drinking, wearing, living and moving, from ceremony to festival, you will get sick if you don't obey the ceremony; Appearance, attitude, advance and retreat, tendency, courtesy is elegant, rudeness is conservative, unconventional and mediocre. If an old friend is rude, there will be no life, if something is rude, there will be nothing, and if the country is rude, it will be uneasy. "Poetry" says: "Courtesy is measured, and laughter pays off." This is also called.

Good ancestors call it teaching, and good people call it obedience; Bad ancestors are called flattery, and bad others are called flattery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hurting a good man is called slander, and hurting a good man is called a thief. Right, right, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, stealing goods is called stealing, hiding is called cheating, easy to say is called birthday, fun is uncertain, and abandoning righteousness is called thief. Listen more and learn more, listen less and learn more. It is more common to say idle things, but it is less common to say ugly things. It's hard to get in, but easy to forget. Less is the rule, more is chaos.

The art of treating qi and nourishing the heart: strong blood will soften and reconcile; The deeper you know, the better; Courage is supplemented by smooth roads; Give convenience, then stop; Narrow and small, broad outline; Humility, procrastination and greed, and then resist it with wisdom; When the masses disperse, they are teachers and friends; If you ignore and abandon it, it will be a disaster; Foolish wealth ends in embarrassment, then it is combined with rites and music and used for it. Any technique of treating qi and nourishing the heart needs no teacher, and it is not good to get god. Husband refers to the art of treating qi and nourishing the heart.

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This paragraph is about what is good and the specific methods to achieve it. This paper points out that it is recognized as good to improve moral character through self-cultivation, which must be completed under the restriction of ceremony, even if the specific method of self-cultivation is inseparable from ceremony and teacher.

If you are determined to practice, you will be arrogant and rich, and your morality will be noble, and your princes will be light; Introspection is light. Chuan said, "A gentleman's thing is a villain's thing." This is called Yi. Work hard and feel at ease; Less and more righteousness, for it; Trouble is better than no trouble. Therefore, a good farmer is not drought, a good farmer is not poverty, and a gentleman is not poverty.

Respectful and faithful, humble and loving, they are all over the world. Although trapped in four countries, people are expensive. Hard work comes first, while pleasure can make people honest, cautious and meticulous, and run wild all over the world. Although trapped among four foreigners, people have an obligation to do it. The body is guilty, the technique is smooth and fine, and it is rampant all over the world. Although extending in all directions, people are not cheap. Hard work is stealing Confucianism, while Raole is not bending, but breaking the rules and not recording, running rampant all over the world. Although it extends in all directions, people will not give up.

Lines are wings, not waterlogging; It is not a crime to do things while leaning down; I bow my head first, I'm not afraid. However, if a gentleman wants to cultivate his body alone, he must not offend vulgar people.

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This passage shows the meaning of good moral cultivation. It is pointed out that good moral cultivation can make people despise wealth and power, and such people can run rampant all over the world and turn the corner.

A husband travels thousands of miles a day, and he also has ten horses. Will it be endless, endless? Its broken bones and tendons cannot be matched for life; Will stop, and then thousands of miles away, sooner or later, sooner or later, why not be together? People who don't know the trace will pursue infinity with infinity. Has the meaning stopped? The husband is strong and white, there are differences, and there are thick and thick observations, but not observations. However, the gentleman stopped without arguing; It's not difficult to travel by the chief, but not by the gentleman. Stop here. Therefore, the scholar said, "If you wait for me, I will be late or soon, or early or late. Why not think it can't be the same? " Therefore, without stopping, the turtle is thousands of miles away; Tired of soil and ceaseless, Qiushan Chengchong; Tired of its source, open its blasphemy, rivers can be exhausted; One advance and one retreat, one left and one right, six horses don't come. The talent of the other party is similar to that of the princess. So what if six horses are lame? However, for no other reason, a lame turtle can cause it, but six horses can't, either for it or not. Although the Tao is close, it cannot be done; Small as it is, nothing is impossible. He is also an idle person, and he is not far away.

Good law, too; Dedication and body, the gentleman also; Qi Ming is inexhaustible, and saints are also. If people can't, they are dumbfounded; If there is law without ambition, the canal will be natural; Deep according to law, then warm.

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This paragraph points out that it is not an easy task to cultivate one's self-cultivation No matter a saint, a gentleman or a scholar, to achieve perfection, we must never stop. Knowing the true meaning of statutes is the basis of self-cultivation, and acting according to statutes can reflect the charm of self-cultivation

Rites, so the body also; Teacher, so courtesy also. Why is rudeness right? Without a teacher, I am polite, right? However, politeness is also a sense of security; When a teacher talks in a fog, he knows if he is a teacher. Love with courtesy, knowledge with teacher is holy. Therefore, you must not be indecent; Without a teacher, there would be no teacher. It is better to use it for your own use than to learn the law. For example, we are still arguing with the blind, arguing with the deaf, and not doing anything. Therefore, those who learn also have manners; Teacher, as a tool of justice, you are safe. "Poetry" said: "I don't know, I don't know, I follow the son of heaven." This is also called.

If you are obedient to your younger brother, it can be said that it is good; Study hard and be sensitive, and you will be supreme and be a gentleman. Stealing Confucianism and fearing things, indulging in food unscrupulously, can be described as a villain; If you are tough and tactless, if you are a thief but not a brother, you can be said to be ignorant, although you can be punished.

The old and the strong return, and those who are not poor and pass the product; What to do is invisible, what to do is not reported, and what to do is not filial. People have these three lines, although there are some big mistakes, life is still not enough. The gentleman's pursuit of profit is also slight, and its far-reaching harm is also early. He avoided humiliation and fear, and his behavior was brave. The gentleman is poor and ambitious, rich and respectful, Yan' an is not lazy, poor and tired, but his appearance is not withered. He was angry, but he couldn't take it away. The gentleman is not poor in ambition, and the benevolent is also; Rich and respectful, killing potential also; Yan' an is not lazy, and Cambodia is reasonable; Tired but not withered, easy to make friends; Anger can't be taken away, joy can't be given, and law wins over private interests. "Book" said: "Do everything, shun Wang Zhidao; Do no evil, follow the way of the monarch. " It is said that a gentleman can overcome selfish desires with justice.

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The article once again emphasizes the important role of courtesy and teacher in self-cultivation, and points out that a gentleman's good moral character can inspire the world and can do things that ordinary people can't do in any environment. Xunzi believes that a gentleman is a person who is indifferent to fame and fortune, far-sighted, cherishes his reputation and dares to devote himself to his ideals.