Day 313 · Fri, Aug 27, 2027 · Five editions

Fri, Aug 27, 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

洪应明:Caigentan, Entry 136

洪应明《菜根譚》· 第136则 · Health · Wealth · Investing · Philosophy

炎涼之態,富貴更甚於貧賤; 妒忌之心,骨肉尤狠於外人。 此處若不當以冷腸,御以平氣,鮮不日坐煩惱障中矣。

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第136则

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07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

孟子:Mencius, 梁惠王下 16

孟子《孟子》· 梁惠王下·16 · Philosophy · Health · Wealth · Cognition

魯平公將出,嬖人臧倉者請曰:「他日君出,則必命有司所之。今乘輿已駕矣,有司未知所之,敢請。」 公曰:「將見孟子。」 曰:「何哉,君所為輕身以先於匹夫者?以為賢乎?禮義由賢者出;而孟子之後喪逾前喪。君無見焉!」 公曰:「諾。」 樂正子入見,曰:「君奚為不見孟軻也?」 曰:「或告寡人曰,『孟子之後喪逾前喪』,是以不往見也。」 曰:「何哉,君所謂逾者?前以士,後以大夫;前以三鼎,而後以五鼎與?」 曰:「否,謂棺槨衣衾之美也。」 曰:「非所謂逾也,貧富不同也。」 樂正子見孟子,曰:「克告於君,君為來見也。嬖人有臧倉者沮君,君是以不果來也。」 曰:「行或使之;止或尼之。行、止,非人所能也。吾之不遇魯侯,天也。臧氏之子,焉能使予不遇哉?」 02

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梁惠王下·16

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12:00 Noon · Investing · Chinese classics

桓寬:Discourses on Salt and Iron, Volume 1, 通有第三, Entry 2

桓寬《鹽鐵論》· 卷1·通有第三 · Wealth · Investing · Philosophy · Health

文學曰:「荊、揚南有桂林之饒,內有江、湖之利,左陵陽之金,右蜀、漢之材,伐木而樹穀,燔萊而播粟,火耕而水耨,地廣而饒財;然民鮆窳偷生,好衣甘食,雖白屋草廬,歌謳鼓琴,日給月單,朝歌暮戚。趙、中山帶大河,纂四通神衢,當天下之蹊,商賈錯於路,諸侯交於道;然民淫好末,侈靡而不務本,田疇不修,男女矜飾,家無斗筲,鳴琴在室。是以楚、趙之民,均貧而寡富。宋、衛、韓、梁,好本稼穡,編戶齊民,無不家衍人給。故利在自惜,不在勢居街衢;富在儉力趣時,不在歲司羽鳩也。」

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卷1·通有第三·第2则

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17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

司馬光:Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 200, Entry 24

司馬光《資治通鑑》· 卷200·高宗天皇大聖大弘孝皇帝上之下顯慶四年(己未,公元六五九年) · Leadership · Health · Human nature · Cognition

蘇定方軍至業葉水,思結保馬頭川。定方選精兵萬人、騎三千匹馳往襲之,一日一夜行三百里,詰旦,至城下,都曼大驚。戰於城外,都曼敗,退保其城。及暮,諸軍繼至,遂圍之,都曼懼而出降。

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卷200·高宗天皇大聖大弘孝皇帝上之下顯慶四年(己未,公元六五九年)·第24则

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21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Andrew Carnegie:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Excerpt 22

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

Colonel James Anderson--I bless his name as I write--announced that he would open his library of four hundred volumes to boys, so that any young man could take out, each Saturday afternoon, a book which could be exchanged for another on the succeeding Saturday. My friend, Mr. Thomas N. Miller, reminded me recently that Colonel Anderson's books were first opened to "working boys," and the question arose whether messenger boys, clerks, and others, who did not work with their hands, were entitled to books. My first communication to the press was a note, written to the "Pittsburgh Dispatch," urging that we should not be excluded; that although we did not now work with our hands, some of us had done so, and that we were really working boys.[15] Dear Colonel Anderson promptly enlarged the classification. So my first appearance as a public writer was a success.

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Chapter IV, excerpt 22

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