1. The goal of a wise man is not to pursue happiness, but to avoid misfortune as much as possible.

2. Material cause, formal cause, efficient cause and final cause are the basic elements for the formation of things.

3. In this world, if you don’t have courage, you will achieve nothing. Courage is the greatest quality next to honor.

4. The ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think, not just in survival.

5. Anyone who is good at thinking must be someone who can pursue what is most beneficial to mankind through action based on his thinking.

6. Substance and form are abstract concepts, and a specific thing contains both.

7. Life is full of opportunities and changes. When people are most proud, the greatest misfortune comes.

8. Relaxation and entertainment are considered indispensable elements in life.

9. The so-called equality means that the poor do not take advantage of the rich.

10. Law is order. Only with good laws can there be good order.

11. People who love the truth love the truth when there is no danger, and love the truth even more when there is danger.

12. What God does is better than any imaginable happy behavior, but pure thinking, and the thing closest to this kind of happiness in human behavior may be the activity closest to thinking. .

13. Intellectuals are better than illiterates, just as the living are better than the dead.

14. I love my teacher, and I love the truth even more.

15. When you are choked by water, what other drinks can you drink to make the water go down?

16. Pity is caused by a person suffering misfortune, fear is caused by the similarity between the person suffering misfortune and us.

17. Work unintentionally satisfies people's need to stay away from the increasingly chaotic life.

18. Time crushes all things; everything ages due to the power of time and is forgotten in the passage of time.

19. Birds with the same feathers will naturally gather together.

20. People think I am the smartest, but I know that I know nothing.

21. Exercising too much and too little will damage physical strength in the same way; eating too much and eating too little will damage health in the same way; only moderation can produce, enhance, and maintain physical strength and health.

22. When man reaches the perfection of virtue, he is the most outstanding animal among all animals; but if he insists on his own way. Without law and justice, he becomes the worst of all beasts.

23. Only by overcoming your own fears can you gain true freedom.

24. Our repeated actions make us who we are. Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit.

25. Education is a decoration for the rich and a refuge for the poor.

26. A person who faces the right things at the right time and feels confident under the corresponding conditions is a brave person.

27. A true friend is one soul conceived in two bodies.

28. What the sage pursues is not pleasure, but freedom from pain.

29. Justice is not a part of virtue, but the whole virtue; on the contrary, injustice is not a part of evil, but the whole evil.

30. Virtue can be divided into two types: one is the virtue of wisdom, and the other is the virtue of behavior. The former is obtained from learning, and the latter is obtained from practice.

31. If you really want to relieve a country's internal worries, you should rely on good legislation and not rely on random opportunities.

32. Form is more important than matter anyway, because form can be created.

33. A magnanimous person can respond appropriately to the fate he encounters, whether good or evil. Don't be happy with success, don't be sad with failure, don't mind the praise or criticism from the outside world, just do what you should do and what you can do.

34. Happiness is placing the soul in the most appropriate position.

35. Happiness belongs to those who are easily satisfied.

36. Goodness is happiness. The golden mean is the highest good and the ultimate beauty.

37. Learning does not create humans, but it separates humans from nature and controls them.

38. If we keep doing a job repeatedly, the job will become ourselves. At that time, excellence is not an action, but a habit.

39. Bravery is the middle way between confidence and fear.

40. Career is the vivid unity of concept and practice.

41. The root of education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

42. Those who live alone are either wild beasts or gods.

43. What we do repeatedly every day makes us who we are, and then you will find that excellence is not a behavior, but a habit.

44. The arbitrator must use equity as the basis, and the judge must use the law as the criterion.

45. Bad people obey because of fear, and good people obey because of love.

46. Every area of ??nature is wonderful.

47. A person’s dignity does not lie in receiving an honor, but in being truly worthy of the honor.

48. What we do day after day determines who we are. Therefore, excellence does not refer to behavior, but to habits.

49. Human behavior is due to one of the following seven causes: opportunity, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, hope, and passion.

50. People without crazy personalities will never have huge geniuses.

51. A person who indulges in pleasure without restraint will become a dissolute person; a person who avoids all happiness like a countryman will become a callous person.

52. What we pursue is a goal that we pursue repeatedly, and perfection is not an action, but a habit.

53. Whenever something is in motion, it is always in the state it is in on the one hand, and the state it is changing towards on the other hand.

54. True virtue cannot be without practical wisdom, and practical wisdom cannot be without virtue.

55. Wisdom does not only exist in knowledge, but also in the ability to use knowledge.

56. I think that those who conquer desires are more courageous than those who conquer their enemies.

57. Man is the best among animals when he is at his most perfect, but when he is separated from law and justice, he becomes the worst among animals.

58. Good nature is valuable, noble and praiseworthy.

59. You are a friend to everyone, but in reality you are not a friend to anyone.

60. Only those who overcome fear can gain true freedom.

61. People who advance scientifically but lag behind morally are not moving forward, but retreating.

62. The reason why a jealous person suffers is because what tortures him is not only his own failures and setbacks, but also the success of others!

63. If you are friends, you will not put the scale between them.

64. Leisure is of course a kind of happiness. Because we work to gain leisure and live in peace.

65. We become just by exercising justice, we become gentle by acting in moderation, and we become brave by acting bravely.

66. The accuracy of language is the foundation of good style.

67. Indulging one's own desires is the greatest harm; talking about other people's privacy is the greatest sin; not knowing one's own faults is the greatest illness.

68. The ultimate value of life lies in awakening and thinking, not just in survival.

69. The ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think, not just in survival.

70. If evil becomes completely unbearable, it will also destroy itself.

71. I think those who overcome their own desires are braver than those who conquer their enemies, because the most difficult victory is to defeat yourself.

72. There is only one way for people to do good, but there are many ways for people to do evil.

73. In misfortune, useful friends are more necessary; in luck, noble friends are more necessary. In misfortune, look for friends out of necessity; in luck, look for friends out of nobility.

74. The kind of person you will become depends on what you do repeatedly.

75. Goodwill is a prerequisite for friendship, but the two cannot be confused.

76. We cannot influence others through intelligence, but emotions can do this.

77. Being humble to your superiors is your duty, being humble to your peers is being kind, being humble to your subordinates is noble, and being humble to everyone is safe.

78. A truly noble person will surely benefit mankind.

79. Serious people imitate the actions of noble people, while frivolous people imitate the actions of despicable people.

80. It is generally believed that happiness exists in leisure. After all, we work for leisure and live in peace.

81. Beauty is a kind of goodness, and it causes pleasure precisely because it is good.