1. Fame and integrity are more important than Mount Tai, and desire for profit is lighter than a feather. ——Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty, "Yusu Min Gongji·Untitled"

Translation: Take fame and honor as important as Mount Tai, and take profit as light as a feather. It is to show that he is noble and not a person who is greedy for profit.

2. Don’t betray by being poor, and don’t change your ambition by being humble. ——Huan Wan of the Han Dynasty, "Salt and Iron Theory: Vast Territory"

Translation: Don't change your integrity because of poverty, and don't change your ambitions because of your low status.

3. Just die in the grass without asking for a life under a golden cage. ——Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "Yuefu Miscellanies, Advocacy Songs and Pheasant Class"

Translation: I would rather die an upright death in the grass than live in humiliation in a cage made of gold.

4. Wealth and honor cannot lead to adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot move, and power cannot bend. ——Mencius and his disciples during the Warring States Period, "Mencius·Teng Wen Gong"

Translation: When you are rich and powerful, you can control yourself and avoid squandering; when you are poor and lowly, you should not change your will; when you are powerful, you should not make mistakes. This is what a man is doing. Extended information:

Temptation is a strange thing that exists in the world. You will be crazy about it and can't help yourself. The reason why it exists is because people are constantly stimulated by desire throughout their lives, so for Temptation tortures a lifetime. When people exist in the world, they first face material temptations, and then spiritual temptations.

Spiritual temptation refers to the pursuit of fame, obsession with expressing oneself, or excessive exploration of knowledge fields. Power, status, fame, money, these are all temptations. Resist temptation and it will be better.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Temptation