Famous aphorisms about governing the country

1. If you do not act cleanly, your subordinates will be idle, which is the worry of a great official!

2. If you are not gifted by salary, Don't accept anything from anyone.

3. If you hear it, you will be happy. If you know your mistakes, you will not hide them and you will not be afraid to correct them.

4. Only respect can overcome laziness, only diligence can make up for clumsiness, and only thrift can nourish integrity.

5. To win the people, an official must be honest, diligent, kind, and merciful... The self-love of an official must be honest, prudent, fair, and diligent. Therefore, the gentle and the stubborn have the same disease.

6. A ruler is shorter; an inch is longer. Things are lacking; wisdom is unclear.

7. It is better to be right but not enough than to be evil and have more than enough.

8. If there is a big harm, there must be a small profit to act as a medium.

9. Be poor without flattery, be rich without arrogance.

10. Use history as a mirror to remember yourself, people as a mirror to correct yourself, and events as a mirror to warn you.

11. Government is based on gaining the virtuous, and governance is based on removing filth.

12. If the road to politics is like a chain of beads, then character integrity is like the golden thread strung with countless pearls; if the way to be an official is like a set of numbers, then integrity is the way to lead many people behind. The "1" of the "0".

13. Politicians are upright. The commander-in-chief is upright, who can be unrighteous?

14. If you live in this world for one day, you will be a good person; if you are an official for one day, you will do good deeds.

15. If you can't straighten yourself, what's the point of being in politics? If you can't straighten yourself, how can you straighten people?

16. It's hard to criticize someone, but it's hard to do it. Therefore, a wise person is practical and effective, and is not just empty words.

17. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.

18. If you observe the friends you make, you can tell whether they are good or bad.

19. I would rather be poor and happy than be rich and worry.

20. I dare not forget about the country despite my humble status.

21. Pride cannot last long, desire cannot be indulged, happiness cannot be extreme, and ambition cannot be fulfilled.

22. The world outside is billowing, but the wind is clear and the moon is bright. Others are busy socializing, but I am only peaceful and far away.

23. Green, derived from blue and green from blue; ice, water derived from it and cold from water.