Traditional Virtues Aphorisms

1, people do not have faith, do not know that it is possible. -- "The Analects of Confucius -- For the Government"

2. Do not lower your will, do not dishonor your body. -- "The Analects of Confucius -- Weizi"

3. If one strengthens oneself by cultivating one's body, one's name will be worthy of Yao and Yu. -- "Xunzi - Cultivating One's Self"

4. If you want to benefit your country, you should not seek riches and honor.

5. The rich and powerful cannot be obscene, the poor and lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty and powerful cannot be subjugated. --Mengzi - Teng Wengongxia

6. Born in sorrow and dying in peace and happiness. -- "Meng Zi - under Su Zi"

7. When the time is poor, the festival will be seen, and one will be hanging down in the blue. --Wen Tianxiang, "The Song of Righteousness"

8. The road is long and the path is far, I will go up and down to seek. --Qu Yuan "Li Sao"

9, Hundred-foot pole, one step further. --Zhu Xi "Answer to Gong Zhong Zhi"

10, the people have no faith does not stand. -- "The Analects of Confucius - Yan Yuan"

11, long too breath to cover up snot, mourning the people's livelihood of the many difficulties. --Qu Yuan, "Li Sao"

12, rhetoric to establish its sincerity. -- "Zhouyi - Qian - Wenyan"

13, the morning of the Dao, the evening of death can be carried out. -- "The Analects of Confucius - Liren"

14, non-temperance can not be clear, non-tranquility can not be far-reaching. --Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments"

15, life as a man, death is also a ghost hero. --Li Qingzhao "Wujiang River"

16, humble position has not dared to forget to worry about the country. --- Lu You "Sickness up book Huai"

17, when the ambition to save high. --Zhuge Liang 《Commandment to Foreigners》

18, 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"

19, not forgetting the country, loyalty. -- "Zuo Zhuan - Zhaogong Yuan Nian"

20, the will is not strong, the wisdom is not. -- "Mozi - Cultivation of the Body"

21, Tian Xing Jian, the gentleman to self-improvement. -- "Zhou Yi - Qian - Xiang"

22, Fame and honor are important to Taishan, and the desire for profit is light as a feather. --Yu Qian "Untitled"

23, Where there is a will, there is a way. --- "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Geng Yu Liezhuan"

24, the old steed in the stable, the ambition is in a thousand miles; the martyrs in his twilight years, the strong heart is not. --Cao Cao's "The Tortoise's Life"

25. --Zhang Zai, "Theory of the Cave of the Scriptures - Learning under the Great Original"

26, I'm not afraid of breaking my bones, but I'm not afraid to leave my innocence in the world. --Yu Qian "Lime Yin"

27, a promise is a thousand pieces of gold. -- "The Records of the Grand Historian - Jibu Luan Bu Liezhuan"

28, can win the strong enemy, the first self-successful people. -- "The Book of Shang Junshu - Drawing Strategies"

29, and friends, words have faith. -- "Analects of Confucius -- Learning to be"

30, people inherently have a death, or heavier than Mount Taishan, or lighter than a feather. --Sima Qian, "Reporting Ren'an Book"

31, a thousand grinding ten thousand strikes is still strong, leter southeast, northwest and north-west winds. --Zheng Xie (xiè) "Title Painting - Bamboo and Stone"

32, the world's worries first, after the world's happiness and joy. --Fan Zhongyan, "The Records of Yueyang Tower"

33, life from ancient times who have no death, leaving the heart of Dan Zhi Zhao Khanqing. --Wen Tianxiang, "Passing through Zero Dingyang"

34, the three armies can take away the commander-in-chief, but the horsemen can not take away the will. --- "The Analects of Confucius - Zihan"

35, the sky will descend on the great task in the people, must first bitter his heart and mind, labor their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, empty their bodies, line whisking what they do. -- "Mengzi - under the sue"

36, donate his body to the national disaster, see the death of a sudden as a return. --Cao Zhi's "The White Horse"

37, the aspiring scholar, without seeking life to harm benevolence, has to kill his body to fulfill benevolence.

38, how many difficult things in front of me, from ancient times, men should be self-improvement. --Li Xianyu's "Sending Someone Away"

39, loyalty to the country. -- "History of Song Dynasty - Yue Fei Legend"

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

41, Shi can not not Hong Yi, a heavy load and a long way to go. --Lun Yu - Qin Bo

42, Words must be faithful, actions must be fruitful. -- "Analects of Confucius -- Zilu"

43, out of the silt and mud without dyeing, Maundy clean and not demonic. -- Zhou Dunyi, "Love Lotus"

44, the scholar who aspires to the way, but is ashamed of the evil clothes and food, is not enough to discuss with. -- "The Analects of Confucius - Liren"

45, the world's prosperity and demise, the responsibility of the people. --Gu Yanwu

46, not refined and insincere, can not move people. -- "Zhuangzi - Fish Father"

47, not for the poor to change, not for the lowly easy will. --Huan Kuan, "Salt and Iron Treatise: The Earth is Wide"

48, Swallow sparrows do not know the will of the great swan! -- "The Records of the Grand Historian - Chen Shibu Shi Jia"

49, the ancient great man, not only have the talent of the world, but also have the will of the unshakable. --Su Shi, "The Discourses of Chao Chao"

50, with the family as the family, the township as the township, the country as the country, and the world as the world. -- "Guanzi - Makumin"

51, Do not complain to heaven, do not blame others. -- "The Analects of Confucius--Constitutional Questions"

52. "There is no way to say that Mulberry is late, for the Xia still fills the sky. --Liu Yuxi, "Reward for Le Tian Yong Lao"

53. The year is cold, and then we know that the pine and cypress will wither after it is cold.




54. --Li Shimin, "Giving Xiaoyu"

55: If you have the will to be taller than you are, you will not have the will to be a hundred years old.

56. Bite the green mountain and do not let go, the roots of the original in the broken rock.

57. If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are rich, you will be good to the whole world.

58. It is better to have a broken jade than a broken tile. -- "Book of Northern Qi - Yuan Jing'an Liezhuan"