A gentleman uses frugality to overcome difficulties.
Source
"Book of Changes·Fu"
A careless gentleman uses the virtue of frugality to avoid danger.
Be diligent in your country and frugal in your family.
Source
"Shang Shu Dayu Mo"
The general idea is to be diligent in national affairs and frugal in family life.
Frugality is the greatest virtue; extravagance is the greatest evil.
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"Zuo Zhuan·Twenty-four Years of Duke Zhuang"
Thrift is the greatest virtue among good deeds; luxury is the greatest evil among evil deeds. evil.
People's livelihood depends on diligence, and diligence will not lead to shortage.
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"Zuo Zhuan·Xuan Gong Twelve Years"
The general idea is that the livelihood of ordinary people depends on hard work. Only by working hard can there be no shortage of property. .
Frugality leads to prosperity, while immorality leads to ruin.
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"Mozi·Ci Guo"
Those who are careless and frugal will prosper, and those who indulge in pleasure will be ruined.
Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, their success was due to diligence and frugality, and their success was due to extravagance.
Source: Li Shangyin's "Ode to History"
Generally speaking, throughout history, whether it is a country or a family, everything thrives on diligence and frugality and perishes on extravagance.
Care and hard work can rejuvenate a country, while leisure can lead to death. Source
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"New History of the Five Dynasties: Preface to the Biography of Lingguan"
General idea
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Worry Taking care of national affairs can make the country prosperous and prosperous, while pursuing ease and enjoyment can lead to one's own destruction.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
Source: Sima Guang's "Exercise thrift and enlightenment"
General idea
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It is easy to change from frugality to luxury, and from luxury to Frugality is difficult.
If you take it in moderation and use it in moderation, you will always have enough. Source
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Volume 234 of "Zizhi Tongjian".
If you ask for things carefully and in a planned way and consume in a controlled manner, you will always be rich.
Only frugality can help integrity, but forgiveness can achieve virtue.
Source
"The Biography of Fan Chunren in the History of the Song Dynasty"
The general idea is that only frugality can make people honest and dedicated, and only tolerance can make people develop good moral character.
A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, always think about the difficulty of material resources.
Source: Zhu Bolu's "Motto on Managing a Family"
To the general idea, even if it is a meal of porridge or a meal, it should be remembered that it is not easy to come by; even if it is half a piece of silk or half a thread, it will not come easily. Also
think of the hardships of work.
Quietness cultivates one's character, frugality cultivates virtue - Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments"
Two Poems of Compassion for Farmers
--Li Shen
< p>It's noon on the day of hoeing,Sweat drips from the soil.
Who knows that every meal on the plate is hard work?
Plant one grain of millet in spring
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Harvest ten thousand grains in autumn.
There is no idle land in the world
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Farmers are still starving to death.
Spring Tour of Tang Dynasty and Liu Jian
The Holy Lord did not allow him to return to Beique, but he would be diligent and thrifty to help the southern Yi.
Essays on history
——Li Shangyin
Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success was achieved through diligence and frugality, and luxury was destroyed.
The affairs of the world
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are often succeeded by diligence and frugality but failed by luxury.
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Lu You
One porridge and one meal, when you think about the different places where you came from; half a thread, half a thread, constant thoughts are on material resources.
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Qing
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Zhu Yongchun
It was noon on the day of hoeing, and sweat dripped from the soil. , who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work.
Quietness cultivates one’s character, frugality cultivates virtue.
[Three Kingdoms Period] Zhuge Liang
Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success was achieved by diligence and frugality, and failure was caused by extravagance.
[Tang Dynasty] Li Shangyin
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
[Northern Song Dynasty] Sima Guang
Frugality and simplicity are the virtues of human beings.
[Ming] Xue Xuan
I advise you not to cherish your gold-threaded clothes, and I advise you to cherish your youth.
Flowers are ready to be cut off when they are in bloom, don’t wait until there are no flowers left to break off branches
Quotation:
Thrift and diligence are two famous doctors of mankind. —— Rousseau
Don’t neglect saving, for a small amount can add up to tens of millions. ——Fan Jiting
Among various cost-saving measures, reducing personnel is the most important. ——Wang Yongqing
Being good at selecting key points means saving time, but rushing around without knowing the key points is equivalent to firing cannons indiscriminately. —— Bacon
Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time.
—— Bacon