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When students answer interview questions, they often encounter problems such as lack of words and too straightforward language. Appropriate famous sayings and aphorisms can play a very good role. To put the finishing touch, today I would like to share with you some famous quotes and aphorisms commonly used in answering questions.

1. Those who want to be upright should look at their appearance, and those who want to be honest should look at themselves first. (Han? Huan Kuan)

Explanation: If you want your shadow to be correct, you must keep your personal appearance correct. If you want your subordinates to be honest, you must first be honest yourself.

2. But if you set a straight mark, there will be no curved shadow. ("Old Tang Book")

Explanation: As long as the pole is straight, it will not cast a curved shadow.

3. The ministers are law-abiding and the small ministers are honest. (Ming Dynasty? Huang Wan)

Explanation: If ministers can abide by the law, then ministers will be honest.

4. But if the officials are not arrogant, it is the afternoon song in the village. (Song Dynasty? Lu You)

Explanation: As long as the officials are upright and the officials are not tyrannical, the people will support them and peace will prevail.

5. A wise man does not do things that are not his own, and an honest man does not do things that are not his own. (Han? Han Ying)

Explanation: If a smart person does not do something, it does not mean that he has nothing to do, but because he knows that it cannot be done; if an honest person does not embezzle, it does not mean that he has property, but because he knows that it cannot be done. Know not to embezzle.

6. If you are frugal, you will prosper, but if you are a promiscuous person, you will perish. (Mozi)

Explanation: Being frugal and frugal will lead to prosperity, while lust and debauchery will lead to destruction.

7. Stealing other people's wealth and using it as theft, what's more, coveting the world's merit for one's own benefit. (Confucius)

Explanation: Stealing other people's property is considered a thief, let alone taking other people's great achievements as your own.

8. If you have evil intentions and let you burn incense without any point, it will help you maintain your integrity. If you see me and don't worship, what's the harm? (Ancient Couplet)

Explanation: If you have evil thoughts and treacherous thoughts in your heart, even burning incense will not do any good. If you keep your body upright and upright, it doesn't matter if you don't worship me when you see me. (The "I" in this couplet refers to the divine image)

9. Avoid corruption in government. If you are greedy for profit, you are also greedy for fame. Do not forget about your reputation and political roots; cultivate integrity and be thrifty. Being frugal is already frugal, but a frugal person is not frugal, but he also cultivates integrity through generosity. (Ancient couplet)

Explanation: As an official and in politics, you must avoid corruption. Coveting for profit is certainly greed, coveting fame and seeking reputation are also greed. Don't be so devoted to vanity and fame that you forget the fundamentals of politics; the only way to maintain integrity is to be frugal. Practicing frugality and being strict with yourself is considered frugal; asking only others and the people to be diligent and frugal is not frugal. You must be strict with yourself and lenient with others to maintain an upright and upright character.

10. Bribery is not what one wants. Just do it to your advantage, without any worries. Therefore, the fight against bribery starts from the top. What the superiors do is to guide the subordinates; what the superiors do is to check the inferiors. (Lu Zhi of the Tang Dynasty)

Explanation: People do not pay bribes willingly. Just because it is personally beneficial to pay bribes, and there are concerns about not paying bribes. Therefore, if we want to curb the practice of bribery, we should start from the top, because the actions of the top can guide the people below. If the people above do not accept bribes, they can stop the people below from paying bribes.

11. The ministers are like a city, and the ministers’ hearts are like water. ("Book of Han")

Explanation: The front door of an official is as lively as a market, and the heart of an official should be as clear as water.

12. The melon field does not accept shoes, and the plum tree does not wear its crown. ("Yuefu Poems")

Explanation: When walking in the melon field, I don't pick up my shoes with my hands if I drop them, and I don't use my hands to straighten my hat when it's crooked under the plum tree.

13. The superior is the representative of the people. If you show what is right, nothing will be wrong (Confucius)

Explanation: As a leader, he is an example for the people. If the role model is good, everything will be fine.

14. Those who are ministers of others take it as a merit to enrich the people and take it as a crime to impoverish the people. (Han. Jia Yi)

Explanation: People in the position of ministers should regard the prosperity and happiness of the people as their own responsibility, and the poverty and suffering of the people as their own sins.

15. The big ones can't do it, the small ones can't do it, this is the way to abandon the country and sacrifice one's life. (Xunzi)

Explanation: Failure to do big things and not doing small things is the path to ruining the country and destroying individuals.

16. Know the affairs of the country, and success or failure will solidify people's hearts. (Song Dynasty. Wang Yurong)

Explanation: We must know that in national affairs, success or failure depends on the direction of people's hearts.

17. If the government is connected and the people are harmonious, all wastes will prosper. (Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty)

Explanation: Government orders are smooth and the people are united and harmonious, and all difficulties will be overcome.

18. Those who are above ten people must be below ten people; those who are above one hundred people must be below one hundred people; those who are above everyone in the world must be below everyone in the world. . (Zhen, Tang Dynasty, Qing Dynasty)

Explanation: Those whose positions are above ten people must put themselves below ten people; those whose positions are above one hundred people must put themselves below one hundred people. , Those who are above the people in the world must put themselves below the people in the world.

19. If the water is turbid, there will be no fish that loses its tail; if the soil is clear, there will be no thorny trees; if the government is troubled, there will be no happy people. (Northern Qi Dynasty. Liu Zhou)

Explanation: If the water is turbid, there will be no fish swimming back; if the land is thin, there will be no trees with lush foliage; if the government is upset, there will be no peace and happiness. civil.