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Yuan anonymous "Enemy Creditor Wedge": gains and losses are always in the sky, and the exhaustion of organs is also in vain. If the human heart is insufficient, the snake will swallow the elephant, and the world will eventually catch the cicada.
Ming? Feng Menglong's "Warning Records" Volume 25 "Returning to Yuan and Regretting Poverty": The ancients said well: "The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant." When we were poor, the door was low and the door was high. Now that we have dug up and made a fortune, we are sorry to apologize.
Luo Hongxian's poem: "The human heart is insufficient, the snake swallows the elephant, and the cicada is finally caught in the world."
As a famous saying to persuade the world, "the snake swallows the elephant when the heart is insufficient" has different versions circulating in different places, but the purpose of persuading people to be satisfied is the same as keeping their duty in a sense. The philosophical education it contains has inspired generations in history, and it is still of great significance to correctly guide people's consciousness in today's materialistic society.
People can be self-disciplined, self-controlled, do not do things that harm the interests and interests of others, and don't push your luck, take the blame and get lost. This is unparalleled in the effect of praying to God to protect yourself from corruption and killing people without committing crimes.
In short, the rich cultural connotation of "snake swallowing elephant lacks people's heart" has long been a wonderful flower in the cultural heritage of our Chinese nation, and it has become one of the magic weapons for us to persuade each other, push ourselves and others and seek things.