1. If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.

Explanation: If a person does not have long-term plans, troubles will soon appear.

2. When quality is better than literature, the country will be wild; when literature is better than quality, history will be achieved. Be gentle and polite, then be a gentleman.

Explanation: If simplicity exceeds ornamentation, it will be rough; if ornamentation exceeds simplicity, it will be vain. Only when simplicity and ornamentation are in the right proportion can one become a gentleman.

3. Those who know something 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.

Explanation: Those who understand it are not as good as those who love it; those who love it are not as good as those who take pleasure in it.

4. When a bird is about to die, its song is mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are also kind.

Explanation: When a bird is about to die, its chirping sound is sad; when a person is about to die, its words are also kind.

5. If you are above the middle person, you can speak well; if you are below the middle person, you cannot speak well.

Explanation: Confucius said: People with above-average qualifications can be taught profound truths; people with below-average qualifications can hardly be taught profound truths.

6. The wise enjoy the water, and the benevolent enjoy the mountains. The wise are active, the benevolent are still, the wise are happy, the benevolent are long-lived.

Explanation: Smart people love water, and virtuous people love mountains; smart people are active, and virtuous people are quiet. Wise people are happy, and virtuous people live long.

7. They are similar in nature but far apart in habits.

Explanation: When people are born, they are all kind-hearted and have very similar temperaments. However, with the different changes and influences of their respective living environments, everyone's habits will vary.

8. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger.

Explanation: If you study without thinking, you will be blinded by the appearance of knowledge; if you think without learning, you will be more dangerous because of doubts.

9. Isn’t it true that one should learn and practice from time to time? Isn’t it great to have friends from far away? Isn't it a gentleman if a person doesn't know something but doesn't get upset?

Explanation: Isn’t it fun to review and practice after learning? Isn’t it nice to have like-minded people coming from afar? People don’t understand me, and I don’t resent or get angry. Aren’t I also a virtuous gentleman?

10. Hearing the Tao but scrutinizing it is the abandonment of virtue!

Explanation: It is morally repugnant to spread rumors after hearing them on the road.

11. How can I be ignorant of the French language? Change it to expensive. If you hold your hand and talk to it, you can say nothing.

Explanation: If it is correct, can you not obey it? Mistakes must be corrected seriously to be considered valuable. If you are respectful, can you not make people happy?

12. If you are respectful, you will not be insulted; if you are tolerant, you will win people; if you are trustworthy, you will be trusted; if you are agile, you will be successful; and if you are kind, you will be able to make people happy.

Explanation: Being dignified will prevent you from being insulted, being generous will win the support of everyone, being honest will help you get the appointment of others, being diligent and agile will improve your work efficiency, and being kind will help you control others.

13. See and think about the meaning.

Explanation: It means that when you see wealth, you should think of morality and justice

14. Seeing the good is like exploring the soup.

Explanation: When I see good people or good things, I am afraid that it will be too late to learn from them and do them too late. When you see evil people or do bad things, it's like coming into contact with hot water. You want to leave immediately and stay away.

15. A gentleman seeks the road but not food; a gentleman worries about the road but not poverty.

Explanation: It is said that a truly knowledgeable gentleman who takes the world and the country as his own responsibility only worries about the failure of his way and does not consider the problems of life; for example, when cultivating fields, he only cares about the cultivation and not about the harvest. I only worry about my own character, not whether I am poor or not

16. Those who look fierce but have a weak heart are like villains, they are like thieves who pass through the tunnel!

Explanation: A villain who looks stern but is weak on the inside is like a thief digging a hole in a wall.

17. Those who are born with knowledge are the best; those who know through learning are the second best; those who learn from difficulties are the second best. If you are trapped and don’t learn, then the people will be in trouble!

Explanation: Those who are born with knowledge are the best; those who learn through learning are the second-class people; those who learn only after encountering difficulties are the second-class people; those who encounter difficulties are still not the best. People who study are the lowest class!

18. A scholar who aspires to the Tao but is ashamed of bad clothes and bad food is not worthy of discussion.

Explanation: If a scholar is determined to pursue the truth and is ashamed of not being well dressed or eating well, then it is not worth talking to him.

19. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will.

Explanation: An army can lose its leader, but a person cannot lose his ambition. It means that the courage of the three armies lies in others, and the ambition of every man lies in himself. Therefore, the commander can be captured but the ambition cannot be captured. If it can be taken away, it is not worthy of being called ambition.

20. The old are safe, the friends trust, the young cherish.

Explanation: I want the elderly to be comfortable, friends to trust each other, and the young to be cared for.

21. When the year is cold, the pines and cypresses will wither.

Explanation: During the severe cold season, we realized that pine and cypress trees do not shed their leaves. Just as a scholar knows integrity when he is poor, he knows loyal ministers when the world is in chaos.

22. A scholar who aspires to the Tao but is ashamed of bad clothes and bad food is not worthy of discussion.

Explanation: A scholar who is determined to learn and pursue the truth but is ashamed of poverty is not worthy of discussing the truth with him.

23. If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening.

Explanation: If you learn the truth in the morning, you will not regret it even if you die that night. It means that life is endless and learning is endless.

24. Look at the reason, the source, and the settlement. How can a person be thin? How can a person be thin?

Explanation: To understand a person, you need to look at what he has done, not only to understand his past, but also to observe his present. In this case, will the understanding of that person be incomplete?

25. If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher.

Explanation: People who can gain new knowledge when reviewing the knowledge they have learned can become teachers.

26. Isn’t it great to have friends come from far away?

Explanation: Isn’t it a joy to have like-minded people coming from afar?

27. People with different paths should not seek each other.

Explanation: People with different political opinions do not discuss each other. What is talked about here is a principle of friendship. The principle is to share the same Tao and not to seek each other if the Tao is different. Because they have different political opinions, they cannot discuss each other. The same goes for making friends. It's difficult for people who don't share the same path to make friends.