1. A gentleman maintains his integrity, cultivates his body, and makes the world peaceful.
2. Mencius said that there is no one who abandons his relatives out of benevolence, and there is no one who abandons his king out of righteousness.
3. The most important thing for people to know each other is to know each other. The most important thing for people to know each other is to understand each other.
4. I know my words, and I am good at cultivating my awe-inspiring spirit.
5. If you are poor, you will be good for yourself; if you are rich, you will be good for the world.
6. An adult is one who does not lose his innocent heart.
7. People do not do anything, and then they can do something.
8. The only thing that determines the world is benevolent government.
9. Those who speak poetry should not harm their words with words, nor harm their aspirations with words. To use one's will against one's will is to gain it.
10. A wife must insult herself, and then others will insult her; a family must destroy herself, and then others will destroy it; a country must destroy itself, and then others will destroy it.
11. If you respect the virtuous and enable the capable, and if the heroes are in office, then all the people in the world will be happy and willing to serve in your dynasty.
12. Father and son are related, monarch and ministers have friendship, husband and wife are separated, elders and young are in order, and friends have trust.
13. If a king is benevolent, he will never be unkind; if a king is righteous, he will never be unjust; if he is upright, he will never be unjust.
14. It is not benevolent to kill someone without sin, and it is not righteous to take something that does not exist.
15. The sage will enjoy it later. Even if an unworthy person has this, he will not be happy.
16. Dogs eat human food without knowing how to detect it;
17. If the emperor is unkind, he will not protect the world; if the princes are unkind, he will not protect the country; if the ministers and officials are unkind, they will not protect the ancestral temple; if the scholars and common people are unkind, they will not protect the four bodies.
18. If you don’t get closeness, you can’t be a human being; if you don’t get closeness, you can’t be a son.