Sima Guang’s famous sayings are as follows:

1. Take off all the purple clothes and gold belt, and you will be a wild man in the forest.

2. A gentleman should not be careful when choosing skills!

3. All ministers on the left and right do not need to be intelligent, as long as they are simple and careful and do not go too far.

4. I have no fault with others, but what I have done in my life is never something I should not say to others.

5. It is said that in order to govern a country, one must first bring order to his family. If his family cannot teach, he cannot teach others. Therefore, a gentleman does not become a monk but teaches in the country.

6. Knowing the world is just a dream, and life is more valuable than the body.

7. Drunk and chanting all day long, I don’t know how to grow old. Who is poor in a house filled with classics and history?

8. If the king is evil and hears his fault, his loyalty will turn into loyalty; if the king is happy to hear his outspoken words, his patience will turn into loyalty.

9. Since ancient times, the patients have been characterized by the emperor's zeal but not down-to-earth attitude, and the common people's feelings that are depressed but not up-to-date.

10. The book must be recited. Or on horseback, when Dai Zhong is up at night, he chants the text and thinks about its meaning, and gains a lot.