The classic sayings of "The Great Learning" include:

1. If you are good, you will know its evil; if you are evil, you will know its beauty.

2. From the emperor to the common people, all are based on self-cultivation.

3. What good people hate, evil people like, this means that if you mess with people's nature, you will catch your husband's body.

4. "Kang Gao" says: "But life is not always the same." If you are good, you will get it, if you are not good, you will lose it. "The Book of Chu" says: "Nothing in Chu is treasured, but good deeds are treasured."

5. Things have a beginning and an end, and things have an end and a beginning. If you know the order of things, you will be able to take the shortcut.

6. A gentleman should be careful about virtue first. There is a person with virtue, a person with soil, a soil with wealth, and wealth with usefulness.

7. It is not good for a villain to live idle, and he is omnipotent. When he sees a gentleman, he becomes disgusted with it, conceals his bad deeds, and practices his good deeds.

8. In ancient times, those who wanted to bring clear virtue to the world first governed their country; those who wanted to govern their country, first managed their families; those who wanted to regulate their families, first cultivated their own bodies; those who wanted to cultivate their own bodies , first rectify one's mind; if one wants to rectify one's mind, one must first be sincere in one's intention; if one wants to be sincere in one's intention, one must first gain knowledge; to achieve knowledge is to investigate things. ”

9. To gain knowledge is to examine things. After examining things, you will know them. After knowing them, you will be sincere. If your intentions are sincere, your heart will be right. If your mind is right, you will cultivate your body. If you cultivate your body, you will have a harmonious family. If you have a harmonious family, you will govern the country. The country will be governed. Then the world will be peaceful.

10. If a gentleman is respected in the world, then what is wealth? If in the world, what is noble?

11. If you do evil to those above, do not do it to those below; if you do evil to those below, do not do it to those above; if you do evil to the front, do not do it in order.