Lin Zexu’s Ten Useless Aphorisms

1. When you go out, smile and don’t feel sad, and open your mind everywhere.

Current affairs cannot be established without fault, and high officials are not born by themselves.

Feng Tao looked back at the three islands in the sky, and Chen soil counted nine Gai from the beginning.

Don’t believe children’s frivolous words, scoff at him and give him a lampstand.

2. The strength is weak and the responsibilities are heavy and the spirit is tired for a long time. If it continues to be exhausted and mediocre, it will definitely fail.

If you want to benefit the country's life and death, why should you avoid it because of misfortunes and blessings?

Play and talk stories with the mountain wife, trying to sing to death.

Famous Quotes

1. If my descendants are like me, they will do nothing with their money. If they are wise and rich, they will lose their aspirations. , aggravating the mistakes.

2. A sea that accepts hundreds of rivers is great when it has tolerance; a thousand people standing on a wall without desires is strong.

3. If one lives and dies for the benefit of the country, why should one avoid it because of misfortune or good fortune? How can you be so generous? If you have no desires, you will be a master for a hundred generations. Martial arts are used to defend borders and repel tigers and leopards, and essays and reasoning are combined with poetry. To be an official, one must be upright in mind and body, and have a reputation for unparalleled achievements.

Couplet

1. Sheyan leaves good words in spring,

Spring is always there in the valleys where there is no cold.

2. The three yang states of Kaiyuan Jing,

You can detect the fragrance of flowers and the spring of a tree.

2. If parents are not filial, it is useless to serve God.

Among all the acts of filial piety, the most important ones in ancient times were loyalty and filial piety. Parents and elders work hard to raise their children. If the children are not filial to their parents, no matter how talented a person is, they will not be reused. There is no benefit in worshiping gods. What is the benefit of making offerings to ghosts and gods if you are unfilial to your parents? Confucius said: Respect ghosts and gods and keep them at a distance. He also said: Filial piety and brotherhood are the foundation of human beings! Parents are more holy than gods. If you want to worship God, why should you sacrifice the near for the distant! This is exactly the truth.

3. If brothers and sisters are at odds with each other, it is useless to make friends.

If brothers and sisters cannot be harmonious with them, why should they be friends?

4. Reading is useless if you behave badly.

Confucius said: Scholars in ancient times studied for themselves, but today’s scholars study for others. Learn to store energy, cultivate benevolence internally, and cultivate etiquette externally. Learning knowledge is not to obtain better benefits, but fundamentally to increase personal cultivation and cultivate personal morality. If a person has bad conduct, no matter how knowledgeable he is, he is not an excellent person.

5. Being eccentric, being clever is useless

Being eccentric means being unreasonable, paranoid, untamed, and different from others in everything. If you are not kind and have bad intentions, no matter how smart you are, it will only be used for harm.

6. Being arrogant and arrogant is useless to be knowledgeable.

Why be knowledgeable? From ancient times to the present, people have been doing things vertically and horizontally just to cultivate themselves. If you use reading as a window dressing, use erudition as a basis for boasting, and are arrogant and arrogant, thinking that you are no better than yourself, even if you read all the ancient and modern books in the world, and know astronomy at the top and geography at the bottom, what is the use? It only adds to the hatred!

7. When fortune is bad, it is useless to seek in vain

There is a saying that it is up to man to plan things, and to make things happen in heaven. This is actually a persuasion. If you have reached an irreversible point, no matter how much you ask for it, there will be no results.

8. Taking people’s money indiscriminately, giving away is useless

A gentleman loves money, but it is not what a gentleman does to use other people’s money in a wise way to do his own good deeds.

9. Medicine is useless if you don’t care about vitality.

The best way to nourish the body is to nourish the Qi within the outer body. Mencius said: I am good at cultivating my awe-inspiring spirit. A gentleman has nothing to eat to satisfy his needs, nor a home to seek peace of mind, so as to nourish his majestic spirit. This is a sincere statement!

10. Sexual evil and unbridled desires are useless.

If you live a life of indulgence, luxury and debauchery, even if you repeatedly do good deeds and accumulate negative virtues, it will be in vain. ;