Zengguang Xianwen's classic sayings are as follows:

1. Don't believe in the straight and the straight, and beware of the unkind.

2. The tower near the water gets the moon first, and the flowers and trees facing the sun are prone to spring.

3. Money is like dung, but kindness is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

4. Raising a son without education is like raising a donkey, and raising a wife without education is like raising a pig.

5. A slight error can make a difference of a thousand miles.

6. Sheep have the kindness of kneeling down to breastfeed, and crows have the kindness of feeding back.

7. The sky net is vast, sparse but not lost.

8. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries.

9. If the tree is moved, it will die, but if the person is moved, it will live.

10. When people are evil, they are afraid of God, but when they are kind, they are not afraid of God.

11. Gentlemen are poor, but villains are poor all the time.

12. When you meet someone, say a few words, but don’t give up everything.

13. Life is full of vegetation and autumn.

14. Good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease, and honest advice is bad for the ears and good for the action.

15. After ten years of hard work, no one asked, but he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop.

16. Do good deeds without asking about the future.

17. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

18. A conversation with you is worth ten years of reading.

19. Goods are expensive when they leave their hometown, but people are cheap when they leave their hometown.

20. Don’t leave early, and there are even more early travelers.

21. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.

22. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

23. If you want others not to know, you have to do nothing unless you do it yourself.

24. The bright stars are not as bright as the lonely moon.

25. People are poor but have short ambitions, while horses are skinny and have long hair.

26. A kind word warms you for three winters, but a bad word hurts you for six months.