Some quotes on traditional Chinese virtues?

He who loves his relatives dares not be evil to others; he who honors his relatives dares not be slow to others.

Meaning: If you love your own old man, you will not dare to treat other people's old men badly; if you honor and love your own old man, you will not dare to slow down other people's old men. From "The Book of Filial Piety. Chapter of the Son of Heaven

The one who does not teach is the gradual abolition of learning.

Meaning: not learning from a teacher is tantamount to beginning to gradually abandon the pursuit of learning.

From "Lü Hengzhou wenji (Collected Writings of Lü Hengzhou)," a book written with his brother Gaogao, who asked him to study the Spring and Autumn Period.

When a country is about to revitalize, it is necessary to value the teacher and emphasize the master.

Meaning: If a country wants to be revitalized, it must respect teachers and attach importance to masters who impart expertise. From "Gouzi".

In ancient times, scholars had teachers.

Meaning: In ancient times, those who studied had to be taught by teachers. From Han Yu's Han Changli ji - The Teacher's Sayings.

Disease learning lies in honoring the teacher.

Meaning: The first thing to learn quickly is to respect the teacher. From "The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Clans" (各氏春秋-劝学).

The gentleman is a teacher and a friend.

Meaning: A man of high moral character respects his teachers and treats his friends kindly. From "Xunzi - The Book of the Cultivation of Virtue".

The gentleman's learning is to call his teacher a teacher of righteousness, and to listen to him, he must do his best to be bright.

The meaning is: when a person of high moral character studies and explains the truth, he will always refer to what his teacher has taught him, and endeavor to carry it forward. From "Lü Shi Chun Qiu", Volume 4, "Honoring the Teacher".

Respecting and advising teachers is the basis for building a nation; promoting virtue and educating talents is the first thing to do for the government.

The meaning is: emphasizing education is the foundation of building a nation, and cultivating talents is the first task of governing a country. From "Zhu Shunshui ji - persuade the Xing".

People can not be without a teacher.

Meaning: one cannot learn without the guidance of a teacher. From "The Discourse of Qianfu - Praising Learning" by Wang Fu (Han Dynasty). On: close to.

How can a person be born without confusion? If you are confused and do not follow a teacher, you will not be able to solve your confusion.

Meaning: man is not born with knowledge, how can he not have difficult questions? If you don't ask your teacher for advice, you won't understand what's going on in the end. From Han Yu's "The Teacher's Commentary" (师說), [Tang].

When a man wishes his children and grandchildren to be wise, but does not honor his teacher, it is as if he wishes to nourish his body but loses his food and clothing.

Meaning: one hopes that one's children and grandchildren will be able to do something, but one does not know to value the role of the teacher, which is like wanting to take care of one's body. It is like trying to take care of one's body without wearing clothes or eating. From (Qing) Wang Zhuo's The Sayings of the Present World, Volume I. Ji: hope. 敬：重视；人虽然有性质美而心辨知，必將求贤师而事之，择良友而友之。

Meaning: Even if a person has a good nature and is intelligent, he must learn from his teachers and choose noble friends to help each other. From "Xunzi - Sexual Evil". Discernment: wisdom.

If you want to be good, ask the three old men.

Meaning: To get things done well, ask experienced older people for advice. It is found in (Ming) Tang Hai's The Wolf of Zhongshan, the third outing.

The teacher to question, the friend to fold doubts. A teacher and a friend are also the resources of learning.

The meaning is: to worship a teacher to answer doubts, and to make friends to analyze them, teachers and friends are very helpful in doing learning. From (Qing Dynasty) Li Syng's "Western Macrocompost Collection - Ice Words Supplement".

The teacher and the friend are very helpful, and the ancient learning is self-reflective.

Meaning: respect and intimacy are important between teachers and friends, and one should reflect on oneself when examining ancient cultures. From "Farewell to Su Shaoxu in Lake Learning" by Liu Chao (Song).

The teacher is strict, then the way is honored, the way is honored, then the people respect learning.

Meaning: When teachers are honored, then knowledge will have a higher status, and the people will pay attention to learning. From Han Ying's <>.

The teacher is the model of the people.

Meaning; the person who is a teacher is a model for people to follow. From (Han) Yang Xiong's "Dharma Words - Learning and Doing".

The teacher! Teacher! The order of Tong Zi is also.

Meaning: The teacher, the teacher, is simply the life of a child; it is better to devote oneself to learning than to make efforts to find a good teacher. From (Han) Yang Xiong's "Dharma Words - Learning and Doing".

When the teacher's way is established, there will be many good people.

Meaning: If a culture of respecting teachers is formed, there will be more people with good behavior. From "The Collection of Hai Rui - Preface to the Gift to Chen Yuanshan for Gutian Division Training".

Three people are like one teacher. Choose those who are good and follow them, and correct those who are not good.

Meaning: When three people walk on the same road, there must be someone among them who can be my teacher. I chose to learn from their strengths and corrected their weaknesses as my own. From "Analects of Confucius - Shui而"（《论语-述而》）.

The good scholar's teacher is easy to learn, but his work is doubled, and he is thus mediocre; the bad scholar's teacher is hard to learn, but his work is half as good, and he is thus resentful.

The meaning is: a person who is good at learning can get twice the result without much effort from his teacher, and thanks his teacher for his work; a person who is not good at learning, but is taught by his teacher with great diligence, gets twice the result with half the effort, and instead of checking himself, he blames his teacher. From "The Records of Rites - The Records of Learning". Yi: contentment; ease. Yong: merit.

Quotations on Traditional Chinese Virtues

Love of the Country

1. Take the home as the home, the township as the township, the country as the country, and the world as the world.

2. If you do not forget your country in times of trouble, you are loyal. --Zuo Zhuan - Zhaogong Yuan Nian

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6. The patriotism of the martyrs is also like a family. --Ge Hong "hold Park Zi - outside - wide analogies" Martyrs: ambitious. The first is the "The Greatest", and the second is the "The Greatest".

7. The world's worries first, and the world's happiness later. --- Lu You, "Sickness,"

9. The king's division in the north of the Central Plains day, the family sacrifices are not forgotten to tell Naiweng. --Lu You "show children"

10. life from ancient times who do not have to die, leaving the heart of the Dan Zhi Zhao Khanqing. --Wen Tianxiang, "Passing through Zero Dingyang"

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15. The scholar can't help but be vigorous and resolute, and the task is heavy and the road is long. --Lun Yu - Qin Bo

16. If one's will is not strong, one's intellect is not strong enough. --Mo Zi - Cultivation of the Body

17. The swallow sparrow does not know the will of the great swan!

18. Aim high.

19. It is not to be indifferent that one can not realize one's ambition, and it is not to be tranquil that one can not be far-sighted.

20．Where there is a will, there is a way.

21. If you have a small ambition, it is easy to get enough, and if it is easy to get enough, there is no way to advance. --Zhang Zai, "The Rational Grotto of Economics -- Under the Great Principle of Learning"

22. In the ancient times, those who set up great things did not only have the talent of the world, but also had the will of perseverance. --Su Shi, "The Discourses of Chao Chao"

23. --Shi Cheng Jin, "Heirloom - Proverbs of the Pastoralists"

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24. The three armies can take away the commander-in-chief, but not the will of the horseman.

25. When the year is cold, then we know that the pine and cypress wither afterward.

26. A man of honor, who does not seek life to harm benevolence, but kills his own body to fulfill benevolence.

27. They do not surrender their wills and do not dishonor their bodies.

28．The rich and the noble cannot be obscene, the poor and the lowly cannot be shifted, and the mighty and the mighty cannot be subjugated.

29. If you are poor, you can do good to yourself alone; if you are rich, you can do good to the whole world.

30. There is a death for everyone, heavier than Mount Taishan or lighter than a feather. --Sima Qian, "Reporting Ren'an Book"

31. Not for the poor to change, not for the lowly to ease the will.

32. It is better to have a broken jade than to have a whole tile. --Li Shimin, "Giving Xiaoyu"

34. "The silt comes out of the mud but does not get stained, and the Maundy Sea is not demonic". --Zhou Dunyi's "I Love Lotus"

35. The time is poor, the festival is seen, and the color of the paintings is hanging down. --Yu Qian "Untitled"

37. I'm not afraid of breaking my bones, but I'll leave my innocence in the world.

38. "Bite the green mountain and don't let go, the roots of the original in the broken rock.

Thousands of blows are still strong, let the winds of the southeast, northwest and north-west. --Zheng Xie (xiè) "title painting - bamboo and stone"

Self-strengthening

39. Tian Xing Jian, gentleman to self-improvement. --Zhouyi - Qian - Xiang

40. The one who wins is powerful, and the one who wins himself is strong. --Lao Tzu, Chapter 33

41. Do not complain to Heaven, do not blame others. --- The Analects of Confucius --- The Constitutional Questions

42． --Meng Zi, "The Second Book of the Counselor"

43. "One is born in sorrow and dies in peace. --Meng Zi, "The Second Book of Suo Zi"

44. The road is long, and I will go up and down to seek it.

45. If you strengthen yourself by cultivating your body, your name will be worthy of Yao and Yu. --Xunzi, "Cultivation of the Body"

46. The one who can win over the strongest enemy is the one who wins himself first. --Cao Cao's "The Tortoise's Life"

48. "There is no way to say that Mulberry is too late for the sun. --Liu Yuxi (刘禹锡)《酬乐天咏老見示》

49. How many difficult things are in front of me?

50. I am a great man in life, but I am also a great man in death.

51. Hundred-foot pole, one step further. -- Zhu Xi, "Answer to Gong Zhongzhi"

Sincerity and Faith

52. --Zhou Yi - Qian - Wen Yan (Zhou Yi - Qian - Wen Yan) Words should be based on honesty and sincerity.

53. Without refinement and sincerity, one cannot move people.

55. Light promises will lead to little faith. --Lao Tzu, Chapter 63 A person who makes promises easily to others must be seldom trustworthy.

56. I have three thoughts for the day: Is it not faithful to plan for others? Is it not faithful to make friends with friends? The word is not practiced, is it not?

57. When you make friends, you are as good as your word.

58. If a man does not have faith, he does not know what he can do. --Lunyin-Wei Zheng (The Analects of Confucius)

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59．The people cannot stand without faith.

60. Words must be trustworthy, actions must be fruitful.

61. A promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

Knowing Shame

62. -- "Analects of Confucius - Zilu" Restrain your behavior with shame.

63．Without a sense of shame, one is not a human being.

64. A man must insult himself, and then others will insult him.

64. A man must have insulted himself before others will insult him.

65. People can not be without shame, no shame of shame, no shame. -Meng Zi -Diligence of Heart: The kind of shame that is unashamed is really unashamed, ah!

66. Knowing shame is like being brave.

67. People must love themselves, and then others will love them; people must respect themselves, and then others will respect them. --Yang Xiong, "The Words of the Law: A Gentleman"

68. If a man has shame, he can do nothing. --Zhu Xi "Zhu Zi class of speech" weary thirteen

69. five punishment is better than a shame. -Lu Kun "groaning language - governance"

70. Shi all know that there is shame, then the country will never have shame. --Zhou Yi Yi Xiang

72. It is not stingy to change one's faults.

73. If you do not seek to be prepared with others, you will not be able to check yourself.




74. There is no greater good than to be able to change one's faults.

76．Taking copper as a mirror, you can correct your clothes; taking the past as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall; taking people as a mirror, you can understand the gains and losses.

77. The one who speaks is not guilty, and the one who hears is warned. --Bai Juyi, "The Book with Yuanjiu"

78. It is not wise to be unaware of one's faults, and it is not courageous to know one's faults and not be able to change them. --Li Mi's "The Ninth Treatise on Yi"

79. "When one hears of a mistake, he is happy about it; when he knows of a mistake, he is not shy about it; and when he corrects a mistake, he is not afraid of it. --Lu Jiubuan, "With Fu Quanmei"

80． --Zhu Xi, "Four books, chapters and sentences collection of notes - & lt; Analects collection of notes & gt; Volume I"

81. Not noble in the absence of faults, but noble in the ability to change the faults. --Xue Xuan's "Record of Readings," Volume 10

83. Changing one's faults and promoting one's good qualities is called "cultivating one's body". -- "The Analects of Confucius--Li Ren" Only a benevolent person knows how to love people and how to hate them.

86. If a man is not benevolent, how is he like manners? The first is that the people who are not benevolent are not as happy as those who are happy.

87. The benevolent man lives on.

88. Those who are benevolent are invincible. --Meng Zi - Liang Hui Wang Shang

89. Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.

90. If you are lenient, you will gain many.

91. "As we are old, so are we old; as we are young, so are we young."

92. -- Mencius -- King Hui of Liang

92. There is nothing better for a gentleman than to do good to others.

92. The highest virtue of a gentleman is to do good with others.

93. If you love people, they will always love you; if you respect people, they will always respect you.

94. A kind word to a man is warmer than cloth and silk; a hurtful word is deeper than a spear and a halberd.

95. Don't hide people's goodness, don't speak of people's evil. --- Ziji Tongjian, Volume 96. To love him in an incorrect way is precisely to do him harm.

97. If you love a person with the heart that you love yourself, you will be as kind as you can be. --Zhang Zai, "Zhengmeng - Zhongzheng"

98. The people are my compatriots; things are mine and mine. --Zhang Zai, "Zhengmeng-qian zheng"

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99. If two people are of the same mind, their benefits will break the gold.

100. Kindness and goodness to one's neighbor are the treasures of a nation.





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102．The gentleman is in harmony, but not in agreement; the villain is in agreement, but not in agreement. --Lun Yu - Zi Lu A gentleman lives in harmony with others, but has his own opinion; a villain is apt to agree with others, but cannot live in peace **** with them.

103．The gentleman is harmonious but does not flow. (Streaming: blindly following) - "Rituals - Zhongyong"

104. Those who are happy with the people's happiness, the people are also happy with their happiness; those who are worried about the people's worries, the people are also worried about their worries.

105. The time of heaven is not as good as the time of earth, and the time of earth is not as good as the time of men.

106. If a thousand people are of one mind, then a thousand men will be able to work; if ten thousand people are of different minds, then none of them will be of any use.

107. A single person is easy to break, but a multitude is hard to destroy. --Cui Hong, "Thirty States Spring and Autumn Annals - Western Qin Records"

108. and to deal with the crowd, wide to receive the next, and forgiveness to treat people, the gentleman people. --Lin Bu (林逋)《省心录》

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110. A gentleman is a man of beauty, but not a man of evil.

111. A gentleman's friendship is as light as water, and a villain's friendship is as sweet as sweet. A gentleman's friendship is as light as water, and a man's friendship is as sweet as sweet. (Pure friendship carries no utilitarian coloring and is as clear and transparent as water.)

115．Those who love their parents do not dare to do evil to others; those who honor their parents do not dare to be slow to others.

116. Filial piety lies in the quality of reality, not in the appearance of decoration.

117. Whoever says that the heart of an inch of grass is a reward for three springs of sunshine. --Meng Jiao, "The Song of the Traveling Son"

118. When the husband and wife are in harmony, the family will be successful.

120. If the father is not kind, the son is not filial.

120. If the father is not kind, the son will be unfilial.

122. A poor friend must not be forgotten, and a chaff wife must not be kept out of the hall.

Righteousness

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124. Righteousness begets profit, and profit enriches the people.

125． --Lunyu-Xianwen (The Analects of Confucius)

126. Seeing the righteous, think of the righteous. --Lun Yu - Ji Shi (The Analects of Confucius)

127．Yi, aspiring to the world as a fen. --Mo Zi - Jing Shu Shang: To be righteous is to aspire to make the affairs of the world one's own portion.

128．It is not righteousness to take what one does not have.

129. Life is what I desire, and righteousness is what I desire; and if I can't have both, I will give up life for righteousness.

130. He who puts righteousness before profit is honored, and he who puts profit before righteousness is disgraced. -- "Xunzi - Honor and Shame"

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132. The law of righteousness is in the righting of me, not in the righting of others.

133. Righteousness is the nourishment of the heart; profit is the nourishment of the body. --Dong Zhongshu, "Spring and Autumn Dew - The Nurturing of the Body is More Important than Righteousness"

134. A gentleman's righteousness is a quality, and when he gains righteousness, it is heavy; when he loses righteousness, it is light, and when he gains righteousness, it is an honor to be righteous, and when he loses righteousness, it is a disgrace.

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138. Those who are benevolent must be courageous, and those who are courageous need not be benevolent.

139. Those who are benevolent do not worry, those who know are not confused, and those who are brave are not afraid.

141. He who knows and asks good questions is holy, and he who is brave and asks good questions wins.

142. If you do not enter the tiger's den, you will not be allowed to have a tiger's son. -Banchao Liezhuan, Houhan Shu

143. Small courage, blood and gas; big courage, righteousness and reason. -Zhu Xi, "The Four Books and Sentences -<Meng Zi Jiezhu > Volume II"

144. The first-born calf is not afraid of the tiger. --Luo Guanzhong, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," 74th

Good Learning

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147. Learning is never tiresome, and teaching is never tireless.

148．Mindful and studious, not ashamed to ask questions.

149．To be faithful and studious, and to keep the good way of death.

150. I have not eaten all day and not slept all night to think, but it is better to learn.

151．Being knowledgeable and determined, asking questions and thinking.

--Lun Yu - Zi Zhang (论语-子张)：Study broadly to strengthen one's will, ask questions earnestly and think in relation to reality.

152. To learn extensively and to speak in detail will be to speak against the truth.

153. If one believes in the Book, it is better to have no Book at all. -- "Xunzi - Advising Learning": learning is not suspended until the last moment of one's life.

155．Jade is not cut, it does not become a tool; a man does not learn, he does not know.

156．Broad Learning, Examination, Deliberative Thinking, Discernment, and Diligent Conduct. --Rituals of the Medieval Times

157. If three people walk together, there must be a teacher for me; choose those who are good and follow them, and correct those who are not good. -- "The Analects of Confucius -- Shui Er"

158. Seeing the virtuous and thinking of the wise, and seeing the unwise, one can also reflect on oneself internally.

160． --Du Fu, "Giving Gifts to Mr. Wei Zuo Chancellor in Twenty-two Rhymes"

161． --Han Yu (韩愈), "Explanations on the Progress of Learning": Virtue and behavior are accomplished by deep thinking, and ruined by following the voice.

162. The sages have no constant teachers.

163. To learn is to have a teacher and a friend.

164． The time is right for encouragement, and the years do not wait for anyone. --Tao Yuanming, one of the eight poems

166. Don't wait to be idle, but when you have wasted your youthful head, you will have no time to grieve. --Yue Fei's "Full River Red - Write Wistfulness"

167. Young people are easy to grow old and hard to learn, an inch of time is not to be taken lightly. --Zhu Xi's "Advice on Learning"

168. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, how much! I live to be tomorrow, all things become wasted. --Wen Jia, "Song of Tomorrow"

Judging the Situation

169. The one who knows others is wise, and the one who knows himself is wise. --Chapter 33 of Lao Tzu

170．To know enough is not to be humiliated, and to know stopping is not to be in danger. --Chapter 44 of Lao Tzu: Knowing contentment prevents humiliation, and knowing moderation prevents danger.

171．Woe is the source of good fortune, and good fortune is the source of evil. --Lao Tzu, Chapter 58

172．The wood that holds together is born at the end of a hair; the platform of nine floors rises from the tired earth; the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. --Lao Tzu, Chapter 64

173. The sage chooses what can be said before he says it, and chooses what can be done before he does it. --Guanzi - Situation Explanation

174. Think twice before you act. --- The Analects of Confucius --- Gongye Chang

175． --Lun Yu - Zi Lu If you are greedy for small gains, you will not be able to accomplish great things. （

176．Without far-flung worries, one must have near worries. --Lun Yu - Wei Ling Gong

177. Without accumulating short steps, one cannot reach a thousand li; without accumulating small streams, one cannot become a river and a sea.

178. The dike of a thousand feet is broken by the hole of a mole cricket.

181． --Rituals of the Middle Ages (礼记-中庸)：If everything is well prepared in advance it will succeed,

otherwise it will fail.

182．Only those who have the way can prepare for the problems before they are realized. --Guan Zi - Mu Min (管子-牧民)：Only those who have foresight can prevent a calamity before it has

become formed.

83. To think of danger in times of peace and security, to think of being prepared, and to be prepared is not to be in danger.

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185．The former vehicle is a repetition of the former, and the latter is a commandment of the latter. -- "Li Ji - Qu Li Shang": Pride must not grow

, desire must not be indulged, one must not let one's ambition be fulfilled, and one should not make oneself happy to the extreme.

187．Goodness cannot be said to be small and unprofitable, and badness cannot be said to be small and uninjurious.

188. The plan is in the curtain, the victory is beyond a thousand miles. --Wu Jing, "The Essentials of the Zhenguan Government -- Criminal Laws"

191. Woe often accumulates in the slightest, and wisdom and courage are often trapped in the drowning. -- "Zhouyi - Qian - Wenyan": to work prudently all day long, to be self-reliant, to run with the

sun and the moon, and never to stop.

193. The newness of the day is called Shengde. --Zhou Yi -Series of Rhetoric: It is great virtue to have new changes every day.

194．Poorness leads to change, change leads to prosperity, and prosperity leads to longevity.

195. "Gou day new, day new, and day new". -- "Rituals - University": If you can get rid of the old and renew them every day, you must get rid of the old and renew them every day

Renew them without interruption and renew them again and again.

196．The changes of heaven are not enough to be feared, the ancestors are not enough to be lawful, and the words of men are not enough to be feared. (Worried) -- Song History -- Wang Anshi Liezhuan

197． --Kang Youwei's Commentary on the Analects of Confucius, Volume IX

198． --Liang Qichao, "The Sayings of Young China"

199. "The green is taken from the blue. -- "Xunzi - Counseling Learning"

200. The learning of a gentleman must be new every day, and those who are new every day advance. The one who does not learn new things every day is bound to retreat every day, and there is no one who does not advance but does not retreat.

Cheng Hao. Cheng Yi "two Cheng set - Henan Cheng's legacy"

201. Learning to be aware of today is yesterday is not, day change month, is long progress. --Zhu Xi, "Zhu Zi Yuzi", Volume VIII

202． --Wang Zhilu's "Climbing to the Stork's Magpie Tower"

203. A thousand sails pass by the side of a sinking boat, and ten thousand trees spring up in front of a sick tree. --Liu Yuxi, "Gifts for the First Encounter with Yangzhou by Le Tian"

Frugality

204. The gentleman is thrifty and virtuous, but he is difficult. --Zhou Yi - No

205. Be diligent in the state and frugal in the family.

206. Thrift is the **** of virtue; extravagance is the greatness of evil.

207. The people's livelihood lies in diligence, and diligence is not in want. -- "Mozi - resignation"

209. The day of the hoe is noon, sweat drops under the soil. Who knows how hard it is to eat on a plate, and how hard it is to eat at all grains. --Li Shen, "Compassionate Farming"

210. "The country and the family of the past sages have been reviewed, and the success of the diligent and thrifty has been broken by the extravagant. --Li Shangyin, "Aria of History"

211. Worrying and working hard can make the country prosper, and idleness and hesitation can kill the body. --Shi Ma Guang, "Discipline and Thrift for Kang"

213. If you take in moderation and use in moderation, you will always have enough. --Zhu Bailu "maxims of ruling a family"