Ancient Poetry of Family Tradition

The Book of Commandments

Author Zhuge Liang Dynasty Two Han Dynasty

The behavior of the gentleman is to be quiet in order to cultivate his body, and to be thrifty in order to cultivate virtue. The gentleman's behavior is to cultivate himself and cultivate virtue through frugality. If you want to learn, you have to be quiet, and you have to learn, and if you don't learn, you can't learn, and if you don't have the will, you can't learn. If you are slow, you can't motivate the essence, and if you are impatient, you can't smelt the nature. Years and time, the intention to go with the day, and then become withered, more than not to receive the world, the sad keep poor hut, will be back and how!