A collection of Zhuge Liang’s classic sayings

1. Without learning, one cannot develop talents, and without ambition, one cannot achieve learning.

2. Work hard and die.

3. Aim high.

4. The journey of a husband and gentleman is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate one’s virtue through frugality. If it is not indifferent, it will not clear its aspirations, and if it is not tranquil, it will not be far-reaching.

5. Generals must not be arrogant. Being arrogant will lead to discourtesy. Being discourteous will cause others to leave. If people leave, everyone will rebel.

6. A good general must have knowledgeable and wise people as his confidants, Shen Shen and careful people as his eyes and ears, and brave and good enemies as his minions.

7. Those who are not scholars, even if they exist, are said to be walking corpses.

Ouyang Xiu's famous sayings

1. There is love and infatuation in life, and this hatred has nothing to do with the wind and the moon.

2. A gentleman and a gentleman are friends of the same way; a villain and a villain are friends of the same interests.

3. Sauvignon Blanc apples fill the stream, and willows line the embankment, sending passers-by to the west of the stream, and the moon is low when they return. The smoke is falling, the wind is miserable, I lean heavily on the red door and listen to the horses neighing, and the cold gulls fly relative to each other.

4. Qiang Guan does not need to complain. No bowel is a new sound.

5. Die Lianhua, who said leisurely love has been abandoned for a long time, every spring comes, the melancholy is still the same. I often get sick and drink in front of flowers every day, and my beautiful face looks thin in the mirror. There are willows on the Qingwu embankment by the river. I want to ask about new sorrows. Why do they happen every year? The wind on the independent bridge fills the sleeves, and the new moon people in the flat forest return.

6. When the bell of the painting tower moves, you will stop singing, and the past will leave no trace. Gathering and dispersing in a hurry. Today I am entertaining a few guests.

7. Xianzi is on the right path when he is young, and he has a beginning and the sun rises at the beginning.

Selected verses at the beginning of Liu's poem

1. Liu Sou praised the peonies in the sky, and Ougong praised the peonies.

2. Liu Xiangquan became more loyal as he grew older, and his family’s kindness was exhausted.

3. When Liu Fanchan shed her body and became an immortal, the old tree had already reached the sky.

4. Liu Hou Yuanyou’s family has high standards and popular customs.

5. Liu Hou’s family has Xiangye Hall, located in the center of Jiudi City, the Eastern Capital.

6. Liu Zi is a dignified man with a tall body of seven feet, talking about world affairs and wearing a beard.

7. Liu Jun has a star stored in his abdomen, and he searches for real opportunities and cries for six dings

8. Liu Sheng is quite talented, but he has the foundation of knowledge.