Guo Degang’s sentences that see through life are:

1. Life is nothing more than making others smile, and occasionally, making others smile.

2. Do not compete with gentlemen for fame, do not compete with villains for profit, do not compete with powerful people for power, and do not compete with heaven and earth for cleverness. If the inside is not in order, the outside will be sycophantic. Without the scattered generals of Wagang, how could the prosperous Tang Dynasty be prosperous? It's such a big thing, it will be over if you endure it. Gold is tested by fire, and people are tested by money.

3. People are at the end of the world, unable to control themselves, singing in the wind and rain. The children of Jianghu can pick it up and put it down. Even if you can’t let it go, you have to let it go. Not many people live to be a hundred years old. They smile when they are happy and smile later when they are unhappy. Being happy is better than anything else. If you compete with anyone, you always compete with yourself. A lifetime will pass if you endure it for a while.

4. Pretend to be demented to prevent death, and make a living by pretending to be a serious person.

5. Appreciate the warmth and coldness of human relationships, the heat and coldness of the world, watch the disputes of honor and disgrace, flee to death, and be at peace with oneself from turmoil and purification. Thousands of people were laughing on stage, while the audience was depressed and miserable.

6. The real wantonness does not mean drinking and debauchery, the fake restraint means impassionedness. Keep a line in everything, so that we can meet each other easily.

7. People’s hearts are full of twists and turns, and the world’s roads are filled with overlapping mountains.

8. People who don’t understand any situation advise you to be generous. You should stay away from such people, because when lightning strikes them, you will be harmed.

9. If you bully me, I will take a step back; if you bully me again, I will take a step back; if you still bully me, I will kill you.

10. With fame and wealth, one is shocked to see a white head in the world; with poetry, wine, music, and books, one is blessed with a green eye in the world. The city competes for profit and the court competes for fame, and the poor pursue power and the evil pursues prestige.