Original text:
A gentleman's journey is quiet to cultivate one's morality, and frugal to cultivate one's morality. If you are not indifferent, you will have no ambition, and if you are not white, you will have no peace. You must be quiet before you can study. If you don't learn, you can't be versatile, and if you don't want to learn, you can't succeed. Slow heat can't have vitality, and danger can't have temperament. Time keeps pace with the times, meaning keeps pace with the day, and then it becomes withered and out of touch with the world. What will happen if you are sad and support the poor?
Translation:
People with high moral character and both ability and political integrity cultivate their body and mind by inner peace and concentration, and cultivate their moral character by frugal style. Without worldly fame and fortune, you can't define your ambitions, and without physical and mental peace, you can't realize your lofty ideals. You must concentrate on your studies, and you must study hard to increase your talents. If you don't study hard, you can't increase your intelligence. If you don't have a clear ambition, you can't achieve anything in your study. Excessive enjoyment and laziness can't make progress, and frivolous impatience can't cultivate temperament.
Precautions:
(1) Fu (fú): The first word of the sentence has no practical meaning. Wang Hongxi's Calligraphy Works "Ten Commandments"
(2) Gentleman: A man of noble character.
(3) Line: refers to conduct, morality and conduct.
(4) Dan stops: quiet and not greedy for fame and fortune. Peace of mind, nameless greed. No desire.
(5) Zhi Ming: Show your great ambition.
(6) Quiet: This refers to being quiet, concentrating and not distracting.
(7) Zhiyuan: achieve lofty goals.