1. If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.

If people do not consider the future, they will definitely have immediate sorrow.

2. A wise man enjoys water, and a benevolent man enjoys mountains.

Smart people love water, and virtuous people love mountains.

3. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.

Don’t impose on others what you don’t want.

4. When making friends, keep your word.

When making friends, you must keep your word.

5. Gentlemen are harmonious but different; villains are harmonious but not harmonious.

Gentlemen live in harmony but do not blindly follow others; villains live in harmony and cannot live in harmony.

6. The Master said on the river: What a dead man! Don't give up day and night.

The passing time is like this flowing water! The days and nights keep flowing.

7. It is like discussing and discussing, and it is like polishing.

Perfecting one's own self-cultivation is like carving jade or stone. It requires hard work.

8. People with different paths do not seek each other.

If you have different positions and opinions, you should not discuss and plan with each other.

9. The three hundred poems can be summed up in one sentence: thinking without evil.

The 305th chapter of "The Book of Songs" can be summarized in one sentence: pure thoughts and no evil things.

10. When I was fifteen, I was determined to learn; when I was thirty, I was established; when I was forty, I was not confused; when I was fifty, I knew the destiny; when I was sixty, my ears were obedient; when I was seventy, I followed my heart's desires without exceeding the rules.

Confucius said: "When I was fifteen, I was determined to study; when I was thirty, I made achievements; when I was forty, I was not confused when encountering difficulties; when I was fifty, I understood the laws of nature; when I was sixty, I could listen to different opinions. , Seventy years old, you can do whatever you want without going beyond the rules. ”

11. You can become a teacher by reviewing the past and learning the new.

Review the knowledge you have learned from time to time, so that you can acquire new and deeper knowledge, so that you can become a teacher.

12. A gentleman is careful but does not compare, and a villain is not careful when comparing himself to others.

A gentleman unites the masses but does not collude with each other; a villain forms cliques but does not unite the masses.

13. To know something is to know it, and to know something is not to know it, this is knowledge.

Knowing means knowing, and not knowing means not knowing. This attitude is wise.

14. This is tolerable, but what is intolerable?

Confucius said about Ji: "He used the emperor's dance lineup to dance in his courtyard. This kind of thing can be tolerated, but what cannot be tolerated?"

15. To listen to the Tao and talk in vain is to abandon virtue.

Hearing rumors and spreading them without verification is to abandon morality.

16. Hear the Tao in the morning and die in the evening.

It is worth it to know the truth clearly in the morning and die at night.