1. Isn’t it true that one should learn and practice from time to time?
Is it true to learn from time to time?
2. Virtue is never alone, it must have neighbors.
Virtue is not alone, there must be neighbors.
3. Do your duty and do not give in to the teacher.
Dang Ren, don't give in to the teacher.
4. Learning without thinking means nothing, thinking without learning means danger.
Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is perilous.
5. The wise are happy in water, and the benevolent are happy in mountains. The wise are active, the benevolent are still. The wise will be happy, the benevolent will live long.
Knowledgeable people like water, benevolent people like mountain. Knowledgeable people move, benevolent people quiet. He who knows is happy, but he who is benevolent is longevity.
6. Wen Guer If you know something new, you can become a teacher.
He who by reviewing the old can gain knowledge of the new and is fit to be a teacher.
7. There is no distinction between teaching and learning.
Make no social distinctions in teaching.
8. In a town with ten houses, there must be loyalty and trustworthiness. Those who are like Qiu are not as good at learning as Qiu.
There must be faithfulness in a ten-chamber city. It is not as good as learning in a hill.
9. Be true to your word and bear fruit in your deed.
Words must be believed and deeds must bear fruit.
10. If your parents are around, you will travel well if you don’t travel far.
Parents in, not far away, you must have a good way to travel.
11. I am not born to know, but I love the past and am keen to pursue it.
I am not born to know. I am old and eager for it.
12. If you are not good at learning, you are afraid of losing it.
If you fail to learn, you are afraid of losing it.
13. Isn’t it great to have friends from far away?
Is it such a delight to have friends from afar?
14. Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy.
He who knows is not as good as he who knows, nor as happy as he who knows.
15. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries.
A man without foresight must have immediate worries.
16. A man who never tires of fine food and fine food.
Eat not tired of refinement, not tired of fine.
17. Three hundred poems can be summed up in one sentence: thinking without evil.
Three hundred poems, in a word, say: think innocently.
18. The future generations are to be feared, how could we know that those who come are not as good as they are now?
The descendants are terrible. How can we know that the ers are not as good as they are today?
19. When three people walk together, there must be one who is my teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones.
Among any three people walking, I will find something to learn for sure. Choose the good and follow it, and change the bad.