Meaning: A gentleman uses frugal virtue to avoid disaster.

2. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

Meaning: An inch of time is as valuable as an inch of gold, but an inch of gold can't buy an inch of time. Illustrates the preciousness of time. We should cherish time.

3. Worry and fatigue can rejuvenate the country, and leisure can die.

Meaning: Worrying about working hard for state affairs can make a country prosperous, while pursuing ease and enjoyment can lead to its own demise.

4. Only frugality can help honesty, but forgiveness can become virtue.

Meaning: Only thrift can make people honest and upright, and only tolerance can make people develop good moral character.

5. frugality leads to prosperity, while fornication leads to death.

Meaning: Thrift will prosper, while lewdness and pleasure will perish.