The ancients’ famous sayings that valued moral cultivation are as follows:
1. Talented people are endowed with virtue; virtuous people are endowed with talent. ——"Zi Zhi Tong Jian"
2. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain has long relationships. ——Confucius
3. The journey of a husband and gentleman is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate one’s virtue through frugality. If it is not indifferent, it will not clear its aspirations, and if it is not tranquil, it will not lead to far. ——Zhuge Liang
4. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. Only virtuous and virtuous, able to serve others. ——Liu Bei
5. A man with lofty ideals will not drink water from a stolen spring, and an honest man will not be fed by someone who complains. ——The Later "Book of Han"
6. If you gain the right, you will get many help, but if you lose the right, you will get little help. ——Mencius
7. The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the rough wind knows the honest minister. ——Taizong of the Tang Dynasty
8. Sacrificing one’s life to go to the country’s disaster, seeing death as a sudden return home. ——Three Kingdoms·Cao Zhi
9. If you are not angry, you will not be inspired; if you are not angry, you will not be angry. ——"The Analects of Confucius"
10. Knowing something is knowing it, and not knowing it is not knowing. This is knowing. ——"The Analects of Confucius"
11. The yellow bell is destroyed and the earthen cauldron thunders. ——"Chu Ci"
12. It is better to guard against the people's mouth than against the river. ——"Mandarin"
13. The prime years will never come again, and it will be difficult to wake up again in one day. ——Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
14. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. ——Three Kingdoms·Zhuge Liang
15. On the journey of the great road, the world is for the common good. ——"Book of Rites"
16. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned. ——"The Analects of Confucius"
17. The old man is always ambitious, but the martyr is ambitious in his old age.
——Three Kingdoms·Cao Cao