1. To be old is not enough to lament, because to lament is to grow old and live in vain; to die is not enough to be sad, and to be sad is to die without benefit.

2. If you can submerge your thoughts, there is nothing that cannot be achieved; if you can raise your ambition, there is nothing that cannot be done.

3. Fang Yan is a man of serious illness, a sage and a sage, who cannot live without kindness.

4. Do not hide things from others, do not have the intention of harming others, and do not avoid things that are beneficial to the country and family even if they are fatal.

5. There is nothing more evil than falsehood in words; there is nothing more evil in deeds than harshness.

6. If a person does not love himself, he will do everything; if he loves himself too much, he will do nothing.

7. Don’t just follow your own will when dealing with people, you have to understand people’s feelings; don’t just follow your own opinions when dealing with things, you have to understand the reasons of things.

8. The two words of inheriting a family are called reading and farming, the two words of building a family are called frugality and diligence, and the two words of settling down a family are called yielding and forbearance.

9. Be selfless and do upright things.

10. You have to hide your own interests to a certain extent. This is to cultivate deepness by being subtle. When others are not good for you, you have to hide it to a certain extent. This is how you can grow up by being honest.

11. All self-interested lives, since - measure life by time. If you love yourself, you will do anything; if you love yourself too much, you will do nothing.

12. When listening to words, you need to know the character of the speaker, the intention of the speaker, the insights of the speaker, and the temperament of the speaker, then listening will not be satisfactory.

13. All you need is humility in your dealings with others, peace in your home, good education in your children, food and clothing, a solid and useful house, and reasonableness in weddings and funerals.

14. Being lazy from the beginning to the end is a thief of cultivating one's career; being slow and anxious is a thief of dealing with things; having a restless mind is a thief of accumulating virtue; speaking sharply and harshly is a thief of dealing with others.

15. In the affairs of the world, there are things that one does not want but others want, and there are things that one wants but others do not want. This should also be taken into account, there are infinite wonderful points.

16. Forgive others for their bluntness; forgive their stupidity for their simplicity; forgive their narrow-mindedness for their simplicity; forgive their laxness for their sensitivity; forgive their arrogance for their defence; forgive their arrogance for their defence. I believe that I will forgive my restraint; as the saying goes, if a person has strengths, he must also have shortcomings. You can learn from the shortcomings, but you can't avoid the longings to pick up the shortcomings.

17. If you think of peace and happiness when you are in trouble, if you think of wealth when you are poor and lowly, and if you think of magnanimity when you are humble, then you will be able to go anywhere without being at ease. If you look at the valley as a prosperous place, as a disease as a healthy place, as if you look at an accident as nothing, then you will have nowhere to go and no stability.

18. If the spirit is invigorated, all things will be lost; if the limbs are slack, all things will be lost. The sage governs the world by inspiring people and boosting morale, making sure that the people of the world are like dewy leaves in the morning and not like midday seedlings in a long drought.

19. If one thought is restrained, all good things will come together; if one thought is unrestrained, all evil will take root.

20. Silence is the most beautiful quality, and it is the one who keeps it in the heart and never lets it go. Nowadays, when people live alone and have nothing to do, they are so quiet and embarrassed that they only respond to things and take care of others, and then they let their mouths wander freely. This is pure madness, and it is not a tool for cultivating virtue.

21. Thousands of streams of water originate from one source, and thousands of branches and leaves of wood come from one source. A person's thousands of rewards should originate from one heart, and thousands of diseases in the body are rooted in one organ.