Example sentences:

1. Whoever speaks from the heart of an inch of grass will be rewarded with three rays of spring.

Source: Meng Jiao's "You Zi Yin"

Translation: Who said that a weak filial piety like Xiaocao can repay the kindness of a loving mother like Chunhui Puze?

2. Live as a hero, and die as a ghost.

Source: "Summer Quatrains" by Li Qingzhao

Translation: When you are alive, you must be a hero among men, and when you die, you must be a hero among ghosts.

3. Life is what I want; righteousness is what I want. You can't have both, you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness. ——"Mencius Gaozi 1"

Source: Mencius "Fish I Want"

Translation: Life is what I want, morality is also what I want , if these two things cannot be possessed at the same time, then I have no choice but to sacrifice my life and choose morality.

4. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you

Source: "The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan"

Translation: What you don’t want to do to yourself , nor impose it on others.

5. Wealth and honor cannot lead to adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot move, and power cannot yield.

Source: "Mencius Teng Wen Gong Zhang Sentence 2·Section 2"

Translation: Wealth cannot make me arrogant and extravagant, poverty and lowliness cannot make me change my moral integrity, and power cannot make me surrender my will. .