When you understand that discipline is self-caring, not self-castigating, you won't cringe at its mention, but will cultivate it.

当你明白自律是对自己的关心而不是自我惩罚，提到它你就不会再害怕而会注意培养它。

He was not a religious man, but he maintained a stark sense of good and evil, castigating others, as well as himself, for transgressions.

他不信教，但善恶分明，既严于律人，也严于律己。

However, as a newly rising royal force, it manifested the tradition of common people, which was shown by castigating the nobility and major conflicts within the family.

不过，作为新起的皇族势力，其门风依然表现出寒门的传统，在宗室政策上表现为苛禁诸王及家族内部的严重冲突等。