Day 268 · Tue, Jul 13, 2027 · Five editions

Tue, Jul 13, 2027

Five emails a day: 00:00 Night / 07:00 Morning / 12:00 Noon / 17:00 Evening / 21:00 Figures

00:00 Night · Health · Chinese classics

孔子及其弟子:Analects 12.1

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 顏淵第十二·十二之一 · Health · Action · Character · Cognition

顏淵問「仁」。子曰:「克己復禮爲仁。一日克己復禮,天下歸仁焉,爲仁由己,而由人乎哉?」顏淵曰:「請問其目。」子曰:「非禮勿視,非禮勿聽,非禮勿言,非禮勿動。」顏淵曰:「回雖不敏,請事斯語矣!」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E/%E9%A1%8F%E6%B7%B5%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%8C
顏淵第十二·十二之一

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07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

司馬光:Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 199, Entry 13

司馬光《資治通鑑》· 卷199·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之下貞觀二十二年(戊申,公元六四八年) · Health · Decision · Philosophy · Leadership

司空梁文昭公房玄齡留守京師,疾篤,上微赴玉華宮,肩輿入殿,至御座側乃下,相對流涕,因留宮下,聞其小愈則喜形於色,加劇則憂悴。玄齡謂諸子曰:「吾受主上厚恩,今天下無事,唯東征未已,群臣莫敢諫,吾知而不言,死有餘責。」乃上表諫,以為:「《老子》曰:『知足不辱,知止不殆。』陛下功名威德亦可足矣,拓地開疆亦可止矣。且陛下每決一重囚,必令三覆五奏,進素膳,止音樂者,重人命也。今驅無罪之士卒,委之鋒刃之下,使肝腦塗地,獨不足愍乎!向使高麗違失臣節,誅之可也;侵擾百姓,滅之可也;他日能為中國患,除之可也。今無此三條而坐煩中國,內為前代雪恥,外為新羅報仇,豈非所存者小,所損者太乎!願陛下許高麗自新,焚陵波之船,罷應募之眾,自然華、夷慶賴,遠肅邇安。臣旦夕入地,儻蒙錄此哀鳴,死且不朽!」玄齡之遺愛尚上女高陽公主,上謂公主曰:「彼病篤如此,尚能憂我國家。」上自臨視,握手與訣,悲不自勝。癸卯,薨。

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%B3%87%E6%B2%BB%E9%80%9A%E9%91%91/%E5%8D%B7199
卷199·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之下貞觀二十二年(戊申,公元六四八年)·第13则

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12:00 Noon · Investing · Western classics

Adam Smith:The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter V, Paragraph 82

Adam Smith《The Wealth of Nations》· Book I, Chapter V · Investing

But though equal quantities of labour are always of equal value to the labourer, yet to the person who employs him they appear sometimes to be of greater, and sometimes of smaller value. He purchases them sometimes with a greater, and sometimes with a smaller quantity of goods, and to him the price of labour seems to vary like that of all other things. It appears to him dear in the one case, and cheap in the other. In reality, however, it is the goods which are cheap in the one case, and dear in the other.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
Book I, Chapter V, paragraph 82

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17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

孟子:Mencius, 梁惠王上 2

孟子《孟子》· 梁惠王上·2 · Leadership · Human nature · Health · Growth

孟子見梁惠王。王立於沼上,顧鴻雁麋鹿,曰:「賢者亦樂此乎?」 孟子對曰:「賢者而後樂此;不賢者雖有此,不樂也。詩云:『經始靈台,經之營之。庶民攻之,不日成之。經始勿亟,庶民子來。王在靈囿,麀鹿攸伏。麀鹿濯濯,白鳥鶴鶴。王在靈沼,於牣魚躍。』文王以民力為台為沼,而民歡樂之,謂其台曰靈台,謂其沼曰靈沼,樂其有麋鹿魚鱉。古之人與民偕樂,故能樂也。《湯誓》曰:『時日害喪,予及女皆亡。』民欲與之偕亡,雖有台池鳥獸,豈能獨樂哉?」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%9F%E5%AD%90/%E6%A2%81%E6%83%A0%E7%8E%8B%E4%B8%8A
梁惠王上·2

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21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Andrew Carnegie:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Excerpt 62

Andrew Carnegie《Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie》· Chapter X · Leadership

The Keystone Works have always been my pet as being the parent of all the other works. But they had not been long in existence before the advantage of wrought- over cast-iron became manifest. Accordingly, to insure uniform quality, and also to make certain shapes which were not then to be obtained, we determined to embark in the manufacture of iron. My brother and I became interested with Thomas N. Miller, Henry Phipps, and Andrew Kloman in a small iron mill. Miller was the first to embark with Kloman and he brought Phipps in, lending him eight hundred dollars to buy a one-sixth interest, in November, 1861.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17976
Chapter X, excerpt 62

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