1. Wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent. This is called a gentleman.

Money status can't confuse and corrupt you, poverty can't change your ambition, and power and force can't make you yield and defect. ?

Source: "Mencius, Wen Gong Xia"

2. A gentleman does something.

As a man, there are things you can do and things you can't do.

Source: The Analects of Confucius Zi Lu

3. When a gentleman is in the world, should he clean up the world and settle down?

A gentleman living in this world should take it as his duty to clean up the dirt in the world. How can he just clean one court and one room? ?

Source: The Biography of Chen Fan in the Later Han Dynasty

4. A gentleman should act in an open and aboveboard manner, like the sun, the moon and Jiao Ran.

A gentleman should be aboveboard in doing things, just like the sun and the moon.

Source: The Book of Jin

5. The gentleman is thick, not thin; In fact, it is not in its China.

Translation: A gentleman stands upright and honest, and does not dwell on watering thin; Simple in heart, not in vain. Therefore, it is necessary to abandon the thin and vain and adopt simple and honest.

source: Tao Te Ching