每週金句-No.157　教子孫吃虧厚道，學習謙讓，定是昌盛根基。教子孫刻薄吝奢，學貪便宜，便是災殃先兆。

教子孫吃虧厚道，學習謙讓，定是昌盛根基。教子孫刻薄吝奢，學貪便宜，便是災殃先兆。

　家庭是我們最初進入也是停留最久的學校，人無不重視家訓和家教。先輩將自己的人生智慧結合聖賢教化，將持家、治國、讀書、立身、做人、交友等道理融於點滴筆墨之中。西晉開國元勳羊祜要求兒子「行己莫如恭，自責莫如厚」；大儒朱熹夫子提醒兒子切記「勤謹」二字；究其共通之處，不外謙、謹、恭、勤、立志奉公。利益可得一時卻不可傳萬世，德行成為日常方可千秋不滅。

　　Teaching your children and grandchildren to be generous and to learn humility is the foundation of their prosperity. If you teach your children and grandchildren to be mean and extravagant, and learn to be greedy, it will be a harbinger of their disaster.