Literary Quotes

1. Those who know me say that I am worried; those who do not know me tell me what I want. (The Book of Songs by Wang Fengmiuli)

2. If a person has no manners, what will he do if he does not die? (The Book of Songs is associated with wind and rat)

3. Those who speak are not guilty, but those who hear are warned. (Preface to the Book of Songs)

4. Stones from other mountains can attack jade. (The Book of Songs Xiaoya He Ming)

5. Give me a peach and repay me with a plum. (The Book of Songs is elegantly suppressed)

6. If God does evil, you can still violate it. If you do evil yourself, you will not live. (Shang Shu)

7. If you are full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit. (Shang Shu Dayu Mo)

8. Doing good is like ascending, doing evil is like falling. (Mandarin)

9. Those who do many injustices will surely die. (Zuo Zhuan)

10. Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and be prepared for danger. (Zuo Zhuan)

11. People are not sages. How can anyone have no faults? If you can correct your faults, there is no greater good. (Zuo Zhuan)

12. He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise. (Lao Tzu)

13. Trust words are not beautiful, good words are not believed. (Lao Tzu)

14. Misfortunes lie on the back of blessings, and blessings lie on the backs of misfortunes. (Laozi)

15. The tree that hugs each other is born from the smallest grain; the nine-story platform starts from tired soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Lao Tzu)

16. Smart and eager to learn, not ashamed to ask questions. (The Analects of Confucius Gongye Chang)

17. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. (The Analects of Confucius Yan Yuan)

18. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. (The Analects of Confucius, Duke Wei Linggong)

19. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain has long relationships. (The Analects of Confucius states)

20. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither. (The Analects of Confucius is rare)

21. Learning without thinking is in vain, and thinking without learning is in danger. (The Analects of Confucius is politics)

　22. A wise man will not be confused, a benevolent man will not be worried, and a brave man will not be afraid. (The Analects of Confucius Zihan)

23. Who has no faults? If you can correct your faults, there is no greater good. (The Analects of Confucius)

24. To know is to know, and to not know is to know. This is knowledge. (The Analects of Confucius is politics)

25. Those who know are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy. (The Analects of Confucius Yongye)

26. If his body is upright, he will not do what he is told; if his body is not upright, he will not do what he is told. (The Analects of Confucius)

27. When three people walk, they must have my teacher: choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. (The Analects of Confucius states)

28. If you follow the great road, the world is for the common good. (Book of Rites, Li Yun)

29. Everything will be successful if it is predicted, and it will be ruined if it is not predicted. (Book of Rites Doctrine of the Mean)

30. After learning, you will know your shortcomings; after teaching, you will know your difficulties. (Book of Rites)

31. If jade is not polished, it will not become a tool; if a person does not learn, he will not know. (Book of Rites)

32. The road is long and long, and I will search up and down. (Qu Yuan Lisao)

33. A ruler is shorter and an inch is longer. (Chu Ci Diju)

34. It is better to have no books than to believe in all the books. (Mencius gives his best)

35. Born in sorrow, died in happiness. (Mencius tells the disciples)

36. If you are in the right way, you will get a lot of help, but if you are in the wrong way, you will get little help. (Mencius Gongsun Chou)

37. The people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important. (Mencius devotes his whole heart)

38. If you are poor, you can only benefit yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world. (Mencius is dedicated)

39. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people. (Mencius Gongsun Chou)

40. Riches and honors cannot be promiscuous, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and power cannot bend. (Mencius and Teng Wengong)

Literary classics and aphorisms

1. Literature is the textbook of human life. ——Chernyshevsky

2. Literature is to use language to create images, models and characters, and to use language to reflect real events, natural scenes and thinking processes.

——Gorky

3. Literature is the expression of social class and group ideologies - the image of emotions, opinions, intentions and hopes. ——Golky

4. Literature makes thoughts full of flesh and blood. It can give thoughts great clarity and explanation better than science and philosophy. ——Gorky

5. When literature becomes half commodity and half art, it will prosper. ——Ralph

6. It is much more difficult to turn words into actions than to turn actions into words. ——Golky

7. Society provides materials to literature, and literature provides norms to society. ——Guo Moruo

8. If you want to learn poetry, your time lies in poetry. ——Lu You

9. The broader a person’s knowledge, the more perfect he is. ——Gorky

10. No matter how you try to detect excellent works, you cannot get to the bottom of them. ——Goethe

11. Heresy is the poetry of life, so having heretical thoughts does no harm to a poet. ——Goethe

12. Art is the promise that makes us aware of the truth. ——Picasso

13. A person who can think is truly a person with boundless power. ——Balzac

14. The mountains and rivers are pure areas in the eyes, and the soul can be seen in the slightest bit of orchid and bamboo. ——Xu Naizhao

15. The speaker is the seedling of ambition, and the practitioner is the root of writing. ——Bai Juyi

16. Speeches are related to current affairs, and chapters reflect national style. ——Du Xunhe

17. To learn knowledge, you must be good at thinking, thinking, and thinking again. This is how I became a scientist. ——Einstein

18. Hope is attached to existence. When there is existence, there is hope, and when there is hope, there is light. ——Lu Xun

19. No matter what kind of knowledge you master, it is useful for intelligence. It will throw away the useless things and keep the good things. ——Leonardo Da Vinci

20. Any valuable knowledge I have learned is from self-study. ——Darwin

21. Write about my liver and lungs to others, and the world will know that I have frosty sideburns. ——Su Shi

22. Not having much knowledge means ignorance; not being accustomed to thinking means being rude or stupid; not having noble sentiments means being vulgar. ——Chernyshevsky

23. Of course, a writer must make money to live and write, but he should never live and write to make money. ——Marx

24. It is literature that awakens our attention to the principles of human life, calms fires, and suppresses evil. ——Saint Pierre

25. Knowledge is as precious as human blood. If a person lacks blood, his body will be weak; if a person lacks knowledge, his mind will dry up. ——Gao Shiqi

26. As long as people become more and more depraved, literature will also plummet. ——Goethe

27. Only a great personality can have a great style. ——Goethe

28. The foundation of poetry is those who have ambition. ——Zhu Xi

29. Reading all good books is talking to many noble people. ——Descartes

30. Literary changes are related to world conditions, and rise and fall are related to order. ——Liu Xie