Even the wisest man is foolish, and it is hard to be confused. The next sentence is: honesty, loss is a blessing!
1. Even the wiser you are, the wiser you are: From Song Su Shi's "He Ouyang Shao Shi's Enlightenment to Officials": "If you are brave and timid, you are as wise as a fool."
2. It's hard to be confused: it's a famous saying handed down by Zheng Banqiao during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and it's his own situation as an official and a road to life.
Extended information
Even the wisest man is foolish
Even the wisest man is foolish, which is an idiom pronounced Dà zhiru ò yú, which means that you don't care because you are virtuous.
Translation:
People with outstanding intelligence may seem stupid on the surface, but they are outstanding and don't show it.
from Laozi and Zhou Xun, "Great wisdom is like a fool, great cleverness is like a clumsy one, and great sound is like an elephant." Su Shi's He Ouyang, Shao Shi's Enlightenment to Officials: Great courage is like a fool.
Difficult to be confused
Translation:
Difficult to be confused means that people are difficult to be confused when they should be pretending to be confused. "It's rare to be confused" is a famous saying handed down by Zheng Banqiao during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, and it is his own situation of being an official and life. Later generations felt that the word "rarely confused" was rich in philosophy, so they hung it at home in the form of banners as a warning for their daily life.
In the 16th year of Qianlong (AD 1751), Zheng Banqiao was invited by Juzhou Zhizhou to visit Juzhou. When I went to Shanwang, a mountain in the north of Ju, I was treated to a grand banquet by the foreign minister of Diwang. The foreign minister had heard about Banqiao for a long time and longed for its Mo Bao, so he treated Banqiao with local famous dishes.
Zheng Banqiao was full of praise after tasting the lake-coated dishes, so he asked Mr. Wang the names of these dishes, and Mr. Wang replied, "We call them confused dishes locally." Seeing that Banqiao was in full swing, Mr. W invited Banqiao to write an inscription.
Banqiao knew what it meant early, but he was still happy to write down four big characters: after the Qianlong period, the words "rare and confused" written by Zheng Banqiao were made into various gifts or rubbings or sold as badges like leaflets, which also caused people to add a layer of interest to this cynical Mr. Zheng Banqiao.
The explanation of "hard to be confused" comes from one's own psychological needs, and thus it is postponed to the mindset and value orientation of the word "hard to be confused". However, since the author did not make clear his intention at that time, he will have a different understanding now.
Resources
Baidu Encyclopedia-Difficult to be confused
Baidu Encyclopedia-Even the wisest man is foolish.