1. If you want to get people, you must get them first. If you want to know people, you must talk about yourself first. If you want to know people, you must know yourself first.

Interpretation: If you want to beat others, you must first make yourself without defects. If you want to comment on others, you must first make yourself free from defects. If you want to know others, you must first know yourself.

2. Stones can be broken, but they are not strong; Dan can grind, but he can't win red.

Interpretation: Stone can be crushed, but it cannot change its hard nature; Cinnabar can be ground into powder, but it cannot change its crimson color.

3. Good scholars, the length of dummies make up for their shortcomings.

Interpretation: People who are good at learning can learn from others' strengths and make up for their own shortcomings.

4. Don't you get it? There will be no fish next year. If you burn the field, you won't get it, and there will be no animals next year.

Interpretation: How can you catch fish after draining the pool? But there will be no fish to catch next year. How can you burn a swamp with little water and lush vegetation to hunt instead of catching wild animals? But there will be no wild animals next year.

5. Take wood with rope and ink, but the palace is not good.

Interpretation: It is very rare if the wood completely conforms to the rope ink. In that case, the palace can't be built.

6. Get ten good horses, but not one Bole; Get ten good swords, but not one Ouye; You have to be a saint to get a thousand miles.

Interpretation: It is better to get a Bole who is good at raising horses than to get ten good horses; It is better to get Ogilvy who is good at casting swords than to get ten swords; It's better to be a saint than a thousand miles away.

7. If you want to know straight, you must take yourself as the criterion; If you want to know that a square is round, you must obey the rules.

Interpretation: to know straight, you must rely on horizontal ink lines; If you want to know the square, you must rely on a round ruler.

8. You can know people by observing yourself; you can know today by observing the past.

Interpretation: you can know others by studying yourself, and you can know ancient times by studying now.

9. Running water does not rot, and family members do not swear.

Interpretation: Running water will not rot and stink, and the revolving door shaft will not rot and stink because it is constantly moving.

10. A ruler must have a procedure, and an inch of jade must have flaws.

Interpretation: A foot-long tree must have knots, and an inch-long jade must have small flaws.