Easy-to-get promises always lack credit, and it is certainly difficult to think too simple. In chapter 63 of Laozi, I introduced a sentence of Laozi: "If you despise a husband who promises nothing, you will be treacherous. It is easier than more. It is still difficult to be a saint, so it is not difficult in the end. " It means: easy promises always lack credit, things are often too simple, and there must be many difficulties in doing them. The explanation of this allusion: now it describes a careless attitude, or refers to not speaking credit.
Tell us that people should not make promises easily. People who promise lightly often see things easily without careful consideration, so they will inevitably encounter many unexpected difficulties when they actually do it; There are many difficulties that are difficult to overcome. If you don't do it well, you will easily break your promise. These two sentences are mostly used to warn people not to make promises easily, and also show that people who make promises easily cannot be trusted.
The extended meaning of "keeping promises"
1, easy promises always lack credit.
If you take things too simple, it must be difficult to do them. I put forward a standard to measure the right and wrong of "keeping promises when it is light, and breaking promises when it is heavy". When it doesn't involve specific circumstances, I think the credit promised easily must be insufficient, and what is too easy to describe will inevitably be difficult to implement in practice.
If a country can't win the trust of ordinary people, it will collapse.
"People can't stand without faith" means that credit is very important to people. When rulers have credit, citizens have confidence; If citizens have confidence, they will have trust; If the people have confidence and trust, governance will get twice the result with half the effort
You can't impress others without sincerity.
There's a saying in China that "when the heart really arrives, the stone opens", so you can pay attention to it. This sentence warns people to be sincere and not hypocritical. If the surface is a set, the heart is a set, and the sun is not obedient, it will eventually reveal the clues.
Please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Keep your promise, keep your promise.