Ancient maxims tell people the moral standards and codes of conduct, advise people to abandon evil and promote good, and provide people with life experience and lessons from their ancestors. The following is the content of the collection of ancient proverbs I shared, I hope you like it!

Complete of classic ancient proverbs

1) Playing with things will make you lose your spirit. (Shu Jing)

2) You cannot admonish those who have gone by, but you can still pursue those who have come. ("The Analects of Confucius")

　3) Because of human nature, it is difficult to read good sentences, and it will never stop if the words are not shocking. (Du Fu)

4) I dare not forget about my country despite my humble position. (Lu You)

5) The way of civil and military affairs is to relax one by one. (Book of Rites)

6) Articles are written according to the time, and songs and poems are written according to the events. (Bai Juyi)

7) Hearing the Tao has its own sequence, and its profession has its specialization. (Han Yu)

8) Asking you how much sorrow you can have is like a river of spring water flowing eastward. (Li Yu)

9) Ask the canal how clear it is, because there is a source of living water. (Zhu Xi)

10) I smiled at the sky with my horizontal sword, leaving my liver and gallbladder intact. (Tan Sitong)

11) The endless falling trees rustle, and the endless Yangtze River rolls in. (Du Fu)

12) The flowers fell helplessly, and the familiar swallows returned. (Yan Shu)

13) There is no intention of fighting for spring, and once everyone is jealous. (Lu You)

14) My life has its limits, but my knowledge has no limits. ("Zhuangzi")

15) Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. (Liu Bei)

16) Birds of a feather flock together, and people divide into groups. (Book of Changes)

17) The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it’s almost dusk. (Li Shangyin)

18) Worry about the world’s worries first, and rejoice after the world’s happiness. (Fan Zhongyan)

19) The little lotus has just revealed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on it. (Yang Wanli)

　20) Lian Guangyu has a vast mind and listens to thunder in a silent place. (Lu Xun)

A collection of recommended ancient proverbs

1) If you want to inflict a crime, there is no reason to hesitate. (Zuo Zhuan)

　2) If you want to see a thousand miles away, reach a higher level. (Wang Zhihuan)

3) Haste makes waste, and small gains mean big things will fail. (The Analects of Confucius)

4) When I was young, I knew that the world was difficult, and the Central Plains looked to the north like a mountain. (Lu You)

5) Once upon a time, there was no water in the sea, except for Wushan, it was not a cloud. (Yuan Zhen)

6) Once upon a time, there was no water in the sea, except for Wushan, it was not a cloud. (Yuan Zhen)

7) Relaxation without relaxation is the way of civil and military affairs. Relaxation without relaxation is the way of civil and military affairs. ("Book of Rites")

8) If you know your shortcomings, you can then reflect on yourself; if you know your difficulties, you can then strengthen yourself. ("Book of Rites")

9) If you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. (The Art of War by Sun Tzu)

10) Knowledge is power. (Bacon)

11) Tell everything you know, and tell everything you know. (Su Xun)

12) It’s easy to see things on paper, but I know that I have to do it in detail. (Lu You)

13) When it is long, it is short, when it is short, it is long. (Lu Shi Chun Qiu)

14) A wise man will lose something if he thinks a lot; a fool will gain something if he thinks a lot. (Yan Zi Chun Qiu)

15) When hundreds of rivers reach the sea from the east to the sea, when will they return to the west? If a young man does not work hard, an old man will be sad. (Han Yuefu "Long Song Xing")

16) To learn a hundred things, one must first make a determination. (Zhu Xi)

17) The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. The pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods. (Du Fu)

18) Biezai Pseudo-Ti is close to Fengya, Zhuanyiduo is your master. (Du Fu)

19) Be broad-minded and appreciative, accumulate thickly but only thinly. (Su Shi)

　20) Learn it eruditely, interrogate it, think it over carefully, discern it clearly, and practice it sincerely. ("Book of Rites")

A collection of selected ancient maxims

1) A new bather must flick his crown, and a new bather must shake his clothes. (Qu Yuan)

2) Faithful words are not beautiful, and beautiful words are not believed. A good person does not argue, and a person who debates is not good. (Lao Tzu)

3) A single spark can start a prairie fire. (Shang Shu)

4) If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger. (Confucius)

5) Be tireless in learning and teaching. (Confucius)

6) After learning, you will know your shortcomings. (Book of Rites)

7) There is no end to learning. (Xunzi)

8) The blood-fertile Central Plains are full of fertile grass, and the frozen earth is blooming with spring blossoms. (Lu Xun)

9) The speaker is not guilty, but the listener is warned. (Preface to Mao's poems)

10) The song "Yangchun" is a song that only few can harmonize with. It is so famous that it is difficult to live up to it. ("Book of the Later Han Dynasty")

11) Career is accomplished by hard work, wasteful by play, accomplished by thinking, destroyed by following. (Han Yu)

12) A one-year plan is better than planting a valley; a ten-year plan is better than trees; a hundred-year plan is better than planting people. ("Guan Yu")

13) If it is violent in one day and cold in ten days, no one can survive.

("Mencius")

14) Clothes are like new, and people are like old ones. (Yan Zi Chun Qiu)

15) Using copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; using ancient times as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs; using people as a mirror, you can know gains and losses. (Sun Zhaoyuan)

16) Worry and labor can rejuvenate a country, while leisure can destroy one's life. (Ouyang Xiu)

17) The loving peony contains spring tears, and the powerless rose lies on the dawn branch. (Qin Guan)

18) Where there is a will, there is a way. (Book of the Later Han Dynasty)

19) Living with good people is like entering the room of Orchid Zhi and not smelling its fragrance for a long time; living with evil people. It's like entering an abalone shop and not smelling its fragrance for a long time (Liu Xiang)

20) If jade is not polished, it will not become a tool; if a person does not learn, he will not know.

("Book of Rites")

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