Not cold, not awake, not quiet, not far away. "From the letter Zhuge Liang wrote to his 8-year-old son Zhuge Zhan at the age of 54."

An exhortation

Gentleman's trip: quiet to cultivate one's morality, frugal to cultivate one's morality. If you don't stay in the garden, you will be unclear, restless and not far away. You must study quietly 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. If you are slow, you can't be energetic, and if you are dangerous, you can't be radical. Time goes by, meaning goes by, and then becomes withered, not meeting the world, and staying in a poor house sadly. What will happen?

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This article is selected from the collected works of Zhuge Liang.