Explanation: When you are frustrated, you should take care of your moral cultivation. When you succeed, you should try your best to benefit everyone in the world.
Excerpt from: Pre-Qin Mencius "Mencius Dedicated Section 9"
The original sentence: Yue: "Respecting morality, music and righteousness can make noise. 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 alone, and if you are good, you will help the world. "
Mencius said: "If you respect the law and are willing to take the best action, you can be carefree. A scholar who is poor does not lose his righteousness, and he is prominent and does not leave his virtue. Poverty does not lose its righteousness, and scholars can gain their nature. If he didn't deviate from morality when he was prominent, the people wouldn't be disappointed in him. People in ancient times, if successful, all the people in the club are Hui Ze; If you feel depressed, cultivate yourself to live in the present. When you are poor, you have to support yourself by yourself. When you are developed, you have to take care of all the people in the world. "
Appreciating poverty is a foreign thing, 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.