"You can't live in a spacious house, and you can't live on the right road." It means that you will not live in the most secure house empty, and you will give up the most correct road. This sentence comes from Mencius.
Original text: "Mencius said: 'Those who commit self violence should not talk with others; those who abandon themselves should not act with others. If words are not polite and righteous, they should commit self violence; if we cannot live with benevolence and righteousness, they should abandon ourselves. Benevolence means that people can live in peace; justice means that people can live in the right way. What a pity!'"
Mencius said, "If you destroy yourself, you can't talk to him about great principles; if you abandon your own people, you can't do great things with him. If you open your mouth and criticize etiquette and justice, this is called destroying yourself; if you think that you can't be benevolent and can't practice morality and justice, this is called abandoning yourself.". 'Benevolence' is the most stable house for human beings, and 'righteousness' is the most correct path for human beings. It is sad that we will not live in the most secure empty house and give up the most correct path. "
Mencius is a classic work of Confucianism, written by Mencius and his disciples Wan Zhang and Gongsun Chou in the middle of the Warring States Period. It was first seen in Zhao Qi's "Inscriptions of Mencius": "This book is written by Mencius, so it is always called" Mencius ". "Mencius" was listed as "four books" by Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty (the other three are "University", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Analects of Confucius"). The Book of the Han Dynasty, Yiwenzhi, records eleven articles of Mencius, and there are seven articles and fourteen volumes in existence. There are more than 35000 words in total and 260 chapters. It is said that there are also four chapters of Mencius' Outer Book, which have been lost (the present edition of Mencius' Outer Book is a fake work of Yao Shilin of the Ming Dynasty). The book records Mencius and his disciples' political, educational, philosophical, ethical and other ideas and political activities.
