1. Confucius' Quotations: The way of a university is to be clear in virtue, to be close to the people, and to stop at perfection.

Vernacular translation: The purpose of a university is to show noble character, to make people get rid of old habits and to reach the highest level of goodness.

2. Confucius' Quotations: The so-called sincere person should not deceive himself, for example, it is self-modesty, so a gentleman must be cautious.

The so-called honest mind means that you should not deceive yourself, hate evil as you hate bad smells, and love kindness as you love beautiful women, so that you can feel at ease, so a gentleman must be careful when he is alone.

3. Confucius' sayings: Rich houses, virtuous bodies, broad-minded and fat bodies, so a gentleman must be sincere.

Vernacular translation: Wealth can decorate the house, morality can decorate the body and mind, and broadmindedness can make the body and mind comfortable, so a gentleman must be honest in his mind.

4. Confucius' Quotations: People don't know the evil of their sons, and they don't know the greatness of their seedlings.

Vernacular translation: No one knows the disadvantages of their children, and no one knows the prosperity of their own crops.

5. Confucius' Quotations: A gentleman has his own needs, and then asks for others.

Vernacular translation: Only when you are virtuous can you ask others to do good.

6. Confucius' quotation: As the saying goes, "Peach flies, and its Ye Zhenzhen. The son of Yu Gui is suitable for his family. "

Vernacular translation: "The lush peach trees have bright flowers. This girl is married and can live in harmony with her husband's family."

7. Confucius' Quotations: The absence of joys, sorrows, joys, and sorrows means that they are in the middle, but they are all in the middle, which means the sum. Neutrality, the status of heaven, and the education of all things.

Vernacular translation: People's emotions are not shown, which is called neutral; Showing compliance with the law is called harmony. When we achieve neutrality, heaven and earth will live in their own places, and everything will grow.

8. Confucius' Quotations: Don't do to others even if you don't want to do to yourself.

vernacular translation: if you don't want others to add it to yourself, don't add it to others.

9. Confucius' Quotations: Learning is close to knowing, practicing is close to benevolence, and knowing shame is close to courage.

Vernacular translation: Love to learn and approach wisdom, strive to do good and approach benevolence, and know shame and approach courage.

1. Confucius' Quotations: If everything is prepared, it will be established, and if it is not prepared, it will be abolished.

vernacular translation: anything can be successful if it is prepared, and it will fail if it is not prepared.

These ten sentences are from the expanded materials of The Analects of Confucius written in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Writing background:

The book of The Analects of Confucius put forward different views. He noticed that there are differences in style and appellation between the ten articles before and after this edition of The Analects of Confucius. The first ten articles recorded Confucius' answers to the questions of public concern and mourning for public concern, all of which were changed to "Confucius is opposite to Japan" to show respect for the monarch. Answering the doctor's question is called "Zi Yue", which means that it is different from Jun, and "the people's will is determined by distinguishing the upper and lower levels".

among the authors of The Analects of Confucius, of course, there are students of Confucius. The chapters in The Analects of Confucius are not only written by different students of Confucius, but also by different disciples of Confucius. There are many records of students who have participated in it.

For example, in the first chapter of Taber Chapter VIII, "Ceng Zi is ill, so he called his younger brother Zi to say,' Enlightenment is enough! Kai Yu shou! "Poetry" cloud, trembling, such as the abyss, walking on thin ice. Now and then, I know that I am free from my husband! Boy!' "

Another example is" Chapter XIX of Zi Zhang ":"The people in the summer ask to give it to Zi Zhang. Zi Zhang said,' What is the cloud in Zixia?' Right:' Zi Xia said: If you can, you can refuse it.'

zi Zhang said,' I've never heard that a gentleman respects the virtuous and tolerates the masses, but Jiashan regrets that he can't. I'm a great sage, why can't I be tolerated by others? If I am not virtuous, people will refuse me, so how can I refuse others?' "This paragraph is like a student's record of Zi Zhang or Zi Xia.

About the author:

Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), namely Kong Qiu, whose name was Zhong Ni, was born in (now in Nishan Town, Qufu City, Jining City, Shandong Province), a famous thinker and educator in the late Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the founder of the Confucian School. His thoughts had a far-reaching influence on China and the world.