Zi Gong said, "Poor but not flattering, rich but not arrogant?" Confucius said, "Yes. If you are not poor, you will be happy, and if you are rich, you will be polite. " Learning first, chapter 15
"Being rich and expensive is what people want, not by their way, nowhere; Poverty and meanness are human evils. If you don't get them their way, you won't go. Chapters 4 and 5 of Liren
Confucius said, "It's fun to eat and drink water and bend your arms and pillow it." . Unjust wealth is like a cloud to me. "Chapters 7 and 16.
It can be seen that Confucius did not simply advocate that people should be kind and upright, be willing to be plain, and not seek profit, greed or wealth. In Confucius' view, "being rich and expensive is what people want" and a reasonable desire as a normal person, but the pursuit of wealth must be through proper means. As the saying goes, "a gentleman loves money and takes it wisely", so "being rich without justice is expensive" is despised by Confucius and regarded as "floating clouds". This is from the means of acquiring wealth.
What should a person do when he is rich? Confucius believes that "being rich but not arrogant" is only a superficial level, and "being rich and polite" is more worthy of respect. From this perspective, Confucius advocated spiritual "wealth", and a person's pursuit of wealth is ...