Mon, Oct 26, 2026

文學曰：「楚、鄭之棠溪、墨陽，非不利也，犀胄兕甲，非不堅也，然而不能存者，利不足恃也。秦兼六國之師，據崤、函而御宇內，金石之固，莫耶之利也。然陳勝無士民之資，甲兵之用，鉏耰棘橿，以破沖隆。武昭不擊，烏號不發。所謂金城者，非謂築壤而高土，鑿地而深池也。所謂利兵者，非謂吳、越之鋌，幹將之劍也。言以道德為城，以仁義為郭，莫之敢攻，莫之敢入。文王是也。以道德為胄，以仁義為劍，莫之敢當，莫之敢禦，湯、武是也。今不建不可攻之城，不可當之兵，而欲任匹夫之役，而行三尺之刃，亦細矣！」

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卷9·論勇第五十一·第2则

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陽明取孟子良知之說，恐人徒事記誦，而必使之反己省心，所以救末流也 作善降祥，不善降殃，可見塵世之間，已分天堂地獄

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第162段（按原排版相邻两行合并）

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The present scarcity of gold and silver money in America, is not the effect of the poverty of that country, or of the inability of the people there to purchase those metals. In a country where the wages of labour are so much higher, and the price of provisions so much lower than in England, the greater part of the people must surely have wherewithal to purchase a greater quantity, if it were either necessary or convenient for them to do so. The scarcity of those metals, therefore, must be the effect of choice, and not of necessity.

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Book V, Chapter III, paragraph 2189

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溥博如天，淵泉如淵。見而民莫不敬，言而民莫不信，行而民莫不説。是以聲名洋溢乎中國，施及蠻貃。舟車所至，人力所通，天之所覆，地之所載，日月所照，霜露所隊，凡有血氣者，莫不尊親，故曰配天。唯天下至誠，爲能經綸天下之大經，立天下之大本，知天地之化育。夫焉有所倚？肫肫其仁！淵淵其淵！浩浩其天！苟不固聰明聖知達天德者，其孰能知之？詩曰「衣錦尚絅」，惡其文之著也。故君子之道，闇然而日章；小人之道，的然而日亡。君子之道：淡而不厭，簡而文，温而理，知遠之近，知風之自，知微之顯，可與入德矣。詩云：「潛雖伏矣，亦孔之昭。

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第17章

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Business men believed that you could do anything by "financing" it. If it did not go through on the first financing then the idea was to "refinance." The process of "refinancing" was simply the game of sending good money after bad. In the majority of cases the need of refinancing arises from bad management, and the effect of refinancing is simply to pay the poor managers to keep up their bad management a little longer. It is merely a postponement of the day of judgment. This makeshift of refinancing is a device of speculative financiers. Their money is no good to them unless they can connect it up with a place where real work is being done, and that they cannot do unless, somehow, that place is poorly managed. Thus, the speculative financiers delude themselves that they are putting their money out to use. They are not; they are putting it out to waste.

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Chapter II, excerpt 25

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