Day 319 · Thu, Sep 2, 2027 · Five editions

Thu, Sep 2, 2027

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

00:00 Night · Investing · Chinese classics

桓寬:Discourses on Salt and Iron, Volume 2, 憂邊第十二, Entry 1

桓寬《鹽鐵論》· 卷2·憂邊第十二 · Investing · Leadership · Health · Character

大夫曰:「文學言:『天下不平,庶國不寧,明王之憂也。』故王者之於天下,猶一室之中也,有一人不得其所,則謂之不樂。故民流溺而弗救,非惠君也。國家有難而不憂,非忠臣也。夫守節死難者,人臣之職也;衣食饑寒者,慈父之道也。今子弟遠勞於外,人主為之夙夜不寧,群臣盡力畢議,冊滋國用。故少府丞令請建酒榷,以贍邊,給戰士,拯民於難也。為人父兄者,豈可以已乎!內省衣食以恤在外者,猶未足,今又欲罷諸用,減奉邊之費,未可為慈父賢兄也。」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%B9%BD%E9%90%B5%E8%AB%96/%E5%8D%B702
卷2·憂邊第十二·第1则

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07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

孔子及其弟子:Analects 4.15

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 里仁第四·四之十五 · Health · Character · Cognition · Philosophy

子曰:「參乎!吾道一以貫之。」曾子曰:「唯。」子出,門人問曰:「何謂也?」曾子曰:「夫子之道,忠恕而已矣!」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E/%E9%87%8C%E4%BB%81%E7%AC%AC%E5%9B%9B
里仁第四·四之十五

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12:00 Noon · Investing · Chinese classics

管仲(舊題):Guanzi, 第78篇揆度, Entry 11

管仲(舊題)《管子》· 第78篇揆度 · Cognition · Philosophy · Wealth · Investing

桓公問管子曰:「吾聞海內玉幣有七筴,可得而聞乎?」管子對曰:「陰山之礝碈,一筴也。燕之紫山白金,一筴也。發、朝鮮之文皮,一筴也。汝、漢水之右衢黃金,一筴也。江陽之珠,一筴也。秦明山之曾青,一筴也。禺氏邊山之玉,一筴也。此謂以寡爲多,以狹爲廣,天下之數盡於輕重矣。」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E7%AE%A1%E5%AD%90/%E7%AC%AC78%E7%AF%87%E6%8F%86%E5%BA%A6
第78篇揆度·第11则

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17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

管仲(舊題):Guanzi, 第67篇明法解, Entry 34

管仲(舊題)《管子》· 第67篇明法解 · Cognition · Leadership · Decision · Action

明主之治也,審是非,察事情,以度量案之。合於法則行,不合於法則止。功充其言則賞,不充其言則誅。故言智能者,必有見功而後舉之;言惡敗者,必有見過而後廢之。如此,則士上通而莫之能妬,不肖者困廢而莫之能舉。故《明法》曰:「能不可蔽,而敗不可飾也。」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E7%AE%A1%E5%AD%90/%E7%AC%AC67%E7%AF%87%E6%98%8E%E6%B3%95%E8%A7%A3
第67篇明法解·第34则

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21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Benjamin Franklin:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Excerpt 22

Benjamin Franklin《The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Leadership

Watts, after some weeks, desiring to have me in the composing-room, I left the pressmen; a new bien venu or sum for drink, being five shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors. I thought it an imposition, as I had paid below; the master thought so too, and forbad my paying it. I stood out two or three weeks, was accordingly considered as an excommunicate, and had so many little pieces of private mischief done me, by mixing my sorts, transposing my pages, breaking my matter, etc., etc., if I were ever so little out of the room, and all ascribed to the chappel ghost, which they said ever haunted those not regularly admitted, that, notwithstanding the master's protection, I found myself oblig'd to comply and pay the money, convinc'd of the folly of being on ill terms with those one is to live with continually.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148
Excerpt 22

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