It’s better to be strong and strong than to have a gray-headed heart? Being poor and getting stronger, I have the ambition not to fall into the blue clouds, I feel refreshed when I drink from the greedy spring, I still feel happy when I am in the dry road. Although Beihai is on credit, it can be picked up if it is soaring; the east corner is gone, but it is not too late to mulberry trees. Meng Chang is noble and noble, but he has no desire to serve his country; Ruan Ji is rampant, how can he cry at the end of the road?
——"Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng"
Therefore, when Heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a person, he must first prepare his mind and will, work his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body. They messed up what they did, so they moved their minds and forbearance, which was beneficial to what they couldn't do.
——"Born in sorrow, died in happiness"