The famous sentences in classical Chinese are as follows:
1. If you don’t fly, you will soar into the sky; if you don’t sing, you will become a blockbuster.
2. Learn it extensively, interrogate it, think carefully, discern it clearly, and practice it diligently.
3. The best thing is water. Water benefits all things without fighting.
4. The way of a university lies in being virtuous, being close to the people, and striving for perfection.
5. Therefore, if you do not accumulate steps, you cannot reach a thousand miles; if you do not accumulate small streams, you cannot reach a river or sea.
6. Old people, I am old, and people are old; young people, I am young, and people are young: the world can be transported in the palm of your hand.
7. Wealth and honor cannot lead to adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot change, and power cannot yield. This is called a true man.
8. With a heart that cannot tolerate others, implement intolerant government, and govern the world with the palm of your hand.
9. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.
10. Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go. It is not too important to be benevolent, and it is not too far away to do it after death.
11. Those who love others will always be loved by others, and those who respect others will always be respected by others.
12. Those who gain the right will get many help, while those who lose the right will get little help. When there is little help, relatives will be there; when there is much help, the world will follow.
13. Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. Benefit from what it cannot do.
14. On the journey of the great road, the world is for the common good.
15. If you seek fish by chance, even if you don’t get the fish, there will be no disaster later; if you do what you want, ask for what you want, and do it with all your heart, there will be disaster later.