17. Today you waste is the tomorrow that those who died yesterday longed for. The present that you hate is the past that you cannot go back to in the future.
18. I feel that I have never been lazy in the old year, so I cannot revitalize in the new year.
19. A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, always think about the difficulty of material resources. It is better to prepare before it rains and not to dig a well when thirsty.
20. She was too young at that time, and she didn’t know that all the gifts given by fate had already been marked in secret.
21. Keep a close friend very indifferently, and spend your life in confusion. - Zhang Chonghe
22. There are hundreds of flowers in spring and a moon in autumn, and there is cool breeze in summer and snow in winter. If there is nothing to worry about, it is a good time in the world. ——Zen Master Wumen (Song Dynasty)
23. For a blind ship, all wind directions are headwind.
24. Mountains and rivers are like unwinding articles. The sun and the moon hold the lamp for you to read with you. ——Jian Yu
25. If the sky in April refuses to split, how will the robes in May begin? ——Jian Yue's "April Split Silk"
26. I woke up at four o'clock in the morning and found that Begonia Flower was still awake. ——Kawabata Yasunari's "The Flowers Never Sleep"
27. I regard thorns as a field covered with flowers, and nothing in the world can torture me. ——Zhang Xianliang's "Greening Tree"
28. Jade can be broken but its whiteness cannot be changed; bamboo can be burned but its knots cannot be destroyed. ——"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
29. If you are rough and sweet, you must be a promising person; only if you are untainted by the glory, you can be called an outstanding person. ——"Night Talk around the Stove"
30. The spring light is as thick as wine, the flowers are intoxicating, the night is as clear as water, and the moon comes to wash away the customs.
——Chen Jiru's "Little Window"
Update 1: Not just China.
Historical figures all over the world can
BC: China: Confucius.
Mencius Mencius
Laozi
Mozi