1. Stay calm to cultivate your character, and be frugal to cultivate your virtue. ——Zhuge Liang

2. Don’t worry about poverty and lowliness, and don’t dwell on wealth. ——Tao Yuanming

3. If the father is unkind, the son will be unfilial; if the elder brother is not a friend, the younger brother will be disrespectful; if the husband is unjust, the wife will be disobedient. ——The Southern and Northern Dynasties·Yan Zhitui

4. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ——Greece

5. Society is like a ship, and everyone must be prepared to steer the ship. ——Ibsen

6. A thousand loves, a thousand kindnesses, a hundred hardships, but who knows my parents who love me? ——"Children's Talk"

7. Extravagance leads to more desires. A gentleman who is too lustful will seek wealth and honor, which will lead to disaster in vain. ——Sima Guang

8. Don’t worry about danger in times of peace, abstain from extravagance and be frugal; cut down the roots in order to seek luxuriant trees, block the source in order to have a long flow. ——Wei Zheng

9. Parents are the best in the world; brothers are the rarest people in the world. ——"Proverbs Lian Bi"

10. Poverty and a pure and simple life are exactly where we revolutionaries can overcome many difficulties! ——Fang Zhimin

11. Among various cost-saving measures, reducing personnel is the most important. ——Wang Yongqing

12. A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, always think about the difficulty of material affairs. ——Zhu Bolulu's "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions"

13. It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality.

14. I feel sorry for my parents, who worked so hard to give birth to me. Without a father, who can be a parent? Without a mother, where can one rely on? ——"The Book of Songs"

15. Those who are extravagant are in ruins, while those who are frugal are safe. One evil and one good are in front of you. ——Bai Juyi

16. Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success is due to diligence and frugality, and failure is due to extravagance. ——Li Shangyin

17. The journey of a husband and a 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 be far-reaching. ——Zhuge Liang

18. Parents are of high moral character; their children are well-educated. ——"Motto Couplet"

19. Coins are round, so they roll away easily. ——Torrian

20. Once the enjoyment of comfort becomes a habit, it makes people almost feel no fun at all, and becomes a real need of people. ——Rousseau

21. Diligence can make up for weakness, and thrift can make up for poverty.

22. Things in the world often succeed due to diligence and frugality but fail due to extravagance.

——Lu You