《孟子·告子下》经典节选

作者：周朝孟子 Born 372BC 翻译：影Shadow

故天将降大任于是人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能。

人恒过，然后能改；困于心，衡于虑，而后作；征于色，发于声，而后喻。入则无法家拂士，出则无敌国外患者，国恒亡。 然后知生于忧患，而死于安乐也。

Mengzi. Gaozixia

by Mengzi, Zhou Dynasty Born 372 BC

Translated by Shadow

Before the lord designates important responsibilities to a person, the lord will arrange things to make this person feel pain inside, to exhaust him/her, let him/her experience hunger and poverty and disturbs everything that he/she does. The lord tries to use all these frustrations and setbacks to make this person alert, and then this person can become more preserver, and acquire capabilities that he/she did not have .

If a person does not make mistakes, this person would not correct the mistakes. A person cannot have special achievements if he/she does not experience inside pain. All the pain and tortures expressed on his/her face, and then can be understood by others. A nation ruins fast without a cabinet full of righteous people domestically and without rivals and disturbances from outside.

The above can prove that pain and difficulties in life can help a person to survive, while peace and pleasure ruin a person.

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