诚伪是品性,却又是态度。从前论人的诚伪,大概就品性而言。诚实,诚笃,至诚,都是君子之德;不诚便是诈伪的小人。品性一半是生成,一半是教养;品性的表现出于自然,是整个儿的为人。说一个人是诚实的君子或诈伪的小人,是就他的行迹总算账。君子大概总是君子,小人大概总是小人。虽然说气质可以变化,盖了棺才能论定人,那只是些特例。不过一个社会里,这种定型的君子小人并不太多,一般常人都浮沉在这两界之间。所谓浮沉,是说这些人自己不能把握住自己,不免有诈伪的时候。这也是出于自然。 Honesty is character, but it is attitude. On the former people’s honesty, probably in terms of character. Honest, sincere, sincere, are the virtue of a gentleman; not honest is the villain fraud. Half of the character is generated, half is upbringing; character manifested in nature, is the whole child of man. To say that a man is an honest gentleman or a fraudulent man is the final account of his deeds. Gentleman is probably always a gentleman, villain is always villain. Although temperament can change, the coffin can cover people, it is only a special case. However, in a society, this stereotyped gentleman villain is not too much, most ordinary people are floating between the two circles. The so-called ups and downs, is that these people can not grasp themselves, can not help but have fraud. This is also natural.