1. Bad intentions make Feng Shui useless. -Lin Zexu

Translation: A person's fortune is in his own hands. If he is kind-hearted, the family atmosphere will be harmonious and the feng shui at home will be good.

2. Parents are unfilial and it is useless to serve God. -Lin Zexu

Translation: all the virtues's filial piety comes first. Parents are the people who give us life and bring us up. If parents are not filial, who can they respect and repay? The gods in heaven will not bless an unfilial person, and the nobles on earth will not really help him, even if he worships incense and flatters every day, it will not help at all.

3. It's no use making friends if brothers don't get along. -Lin Zexu

Translation: If we can't tolerate the shortcomings of brothers with the same surname and get along with each other, how can we tolerate friends with different surnames?

4. It's useless to study if you don't behave properly. -Lin Zexu

Many of our experiences, methods and means come from books. If a person is ambitious, kind-hearted, tolerant and self-restrained, he will use what he has learned to benefit others and achieve himself.

If a person is selfish, narrow-minded, harmful to others, and selfish at the expense of the public, the more experience, methods and means he learns, the greater harm he will do to society and others, and the quicker he will be retaliated by others or even punished by law. Therefore, reading may not be beneficial to people with unhealthy psychology and behavior.

5. It's useless to be clever and perverse. -Lin Zexu

Translation: Every period of society has specific moral concepts, values and codes of conduct, and personal behavior should meet the requirements of these concepts. If a person shows unusual behaviors, such as strange clothes, strange behavior, outspoken, selfish, arrogant, full of lies, etc., it means that he intentionally or unintentionally makes people admit his differences.

6. It's useless to have a high heart and be knowledgeable. -Lin Zexu

Translation: A person who has a higher heart than the sky, is arrogant, arrogant and self-righteous, even if he is knowledgeable, is prone to psychological rejection. His preaching and suggestions are never recognized, so his talents cannot be fully exerted.

7. It's not good to be rich, but it's not good to accumulate. -Lin Zexu

Translation: Those who seek to get rich by hook or by crook, and those who don't help others when they get rich, accumulating more property is contrary to the universal values of the whole society, which is unpopular and even the beginning of disaster.