1. If one is not committed to virtue and does not have a firm belief in the Tao, how can one live or die?

2. When making friends, keep your word. Use literature to make friends, and friends to support benevolence.

3. There are three friends who benefit and three friends who harm. Friends who are straight, friends who are understanding, and friends who are knowledgeable are beneficial. If you have friends, you will be brave. If you are friendly, you will be gentle. If you have friends, you will be sycophantic, which is a loss.

4. Use literature to make friends, and friends to help people.

5. To say something without mentioning it is called impatience; to say something but not speak it is called concealment; to say it without seeing the color is called blindness.

6. If you have a sense of shame in your own conduct and can be used in all directions without dishonoring the emperor's orders, you can be called a scholar.

7. No haste, no small gain. If you want haste, you will not achieve anything; if you see small gains, you will not achieve great things.

8. Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go. Isn’t it important to consider benevolence as one’s own responsibility? Isn't it just too far to die before oneself?

9. If you are a person of three, you must have a teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and choose the bad ones and change them.

10. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will!

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

12. Confucius said: "He who can do the five things will be benevolent in the world." Please ask. Said: "Gong, generosity, trust, sensitivity, and benefit. Being respectful means not insulting, being lenient means winning people, being trustworthy means being able to do whatever you want, being sensitive means being successful, and being merciful means being able to win over others."

13. If you can talk to someone but don’t talk to them, you will miss someone; if you talk to someone you can’t talk to, you will lose your words. He who knows does not lose people, nor does he lose words.

14. A gentleman wants to be slow in words but quick in deeds.

15. A gentleman takes righteousness as a pledge, practices etiquette as a pledge, a grandson as a gift, and trust as a fulfillment. What a gentleman!

16. A gentleman who has nothing to eat and nothing to live in, who is sensitive to things but careful in his words, is Taoist and upright, and he can be said to be eager to learn.

17. A gentleman’s name must be something to be said, and his words must be actionable. A gentleman is nothing more than strict about what he says.

18. A gentleman is respectful and courteous to others. He is a brother in the world. He speaks faithfully and acts respectfully. This is true even in a barbaric country. If you are not faithful in words and sincere in deeds, how can you do it even if you live in the state?

19. Be respectful in your place, respectful in your work, and loyal to others.

20. When you see a virtuous person, think about them, and when you see a virtuous person, you should reflect on yourself.

21. If you want to establish yourself, you should establish others; if you want to achieve yourself, you should achieve others.

22. Do to others what you don’t want others to do.

23. If you are straight but don’t learn, you will be blind and twisted; if you are brave and don’t learn, you will be confused; if you are straight and don’t learn, you will be crazy.

24. Making mistakes without correcting them is called making mistakes!

25. If you pass it, you will have to change it in a hurry.

26. If you are generous to yourself but do not blame others, you will be far away from resentment.

27. Being respectful but rude will lead to fatigue, being cautious but rude will lead to arrogance, being brave but rude will lead to chaos, being straight but rude will lead to strangulation.