Frugality and simplicity are the virtues of man; luxury and magnificence are the great vices of man.

---Xue Xuan: "Xue Wenqing Gong's Reading Record" Volume 5

Forbidding luxury and advocating frugality is also a good policy.

----Wei Yuan: "Wei Yuan Ji·Zhi Pian"

Only frugality can help integrity, but forgiveness can achieve virtue.

----"History of the Song Dynasty·Biography of Fan Chunren"

People's extravagance is shown by frugality, and people's frugality is shown by propriety.

-----Huan Kuan: "On Salt and Iron·Rescuing Scarcity"

People's most basic material needs: air, sunlight, water, in fact, they are not much related to money. relationship. As for the important contents of life value such as interpersonal harmony, spiritual enrichment, lively taste, and noble personality, money cannot buy them. ------ Han Shaogong (Hainan writer)

I am willing to spend a lot of money to help others, but I am reluctant to throw away a good thing or thing. I don't save for the sake of money, I save for the sake of saving. In my opinion, the virtue of frugality is not just about “money”, but a kind of ethics, character and culture.

------Zhang Kangkang (Beijing writer)

Standing in the position of arbitrary choice, out of human short-term selfish interests, the speed and scope of the damage we have caused are greater than Ten times, hundreds of times greater than the endangered lives we are allowed to survive.

Shu Ting (Fujian poet)