1. Famous quotes or poems about selfishness
1. A gentleman is known as righteousness, and a villain is known as benefit. ——From "The Analects of Confucius·Li Ren" by Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period
Translation: A gentleman understands morality, while a villain understands interests.
2. Does the prefect of Xuancheng know that there is one foot of blanket and one thousand taels of silk? The earth doesn't know how cold it is and people want to be warm, so it rarely takes people's clothes to make lichen. ——From "The Red Thread Carpet" by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty
Translation: Does the Xuanzhou Prefect, who enjoys high official status and generous salary, know that weaving a one-foot-long blanket requires thousands of taels of silk? What a waste of people and money! The earth doesn't know whether it's cold or warm, but the hardworking people rely on it to survive. Don't take away the silk that the people rely on to weave clothes and keep warm to weave carpets.
3. Everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own door and doesn’t care about the frost on other people’s tiles. ——From Song Dynasty Chen Yuanliang's "Shi Lin Guangji· Warning Motto"
Translation: Just clean the snow in front of your own door. Don't worry about whether the snow on other people's roof tiles has been cleaned. Specifically, don't meddle in other people's business.
4. It’s none of your business, just hang it up high. ——Modern Mao Zedong's "Against Liberalism"
Translation: Think that things have nothing to do with you, put them aside and ignore things that have nothing to do with you.
5. Seize the mud swallow's mouth, cut the iron needle, scrape the golden Buddha's face and search carefully, and find nothing. The quails are looking for peas in their crops, the egrets are chopping the fine meat from their legs, and the mosquitoes are eating fat from their bellies. It’s a shame the old man did it! ——"Drunken Taiping" Anonymous in the Yuan Dynasty
Translation: Seize the mud from the mouth of the swallow, peel the iron on the head of the needle, scrape the gold carefully on the face of the Bodhisattva, looking for something in the absence. Look for peas in the throat pouches of quails, split some meat from the legs of egrets, and extract fat from the stomachs of mosquitoes. It's a good thing that you, the old man, can do it. 2. Poems expressing selfishness
1. Drunken Taiping
Era: Yuan Dynasty
Author: Anonymous
Seize the mud swallow's mouth and peel it With an iron needle, I scratched the golden Buddha's face and searched carefully, but found nothing. The quails are looking for peas in their crops, the egrets are chopping the fine meat from their legs, and the mosquitoes are eating fat from their bellies. It’s a shame the old man did it!
Translation: Seize the mud from the mouth of the swallow, peel the iron on the head of the needle, scrape the gold carefully on the face of the Bodhisattva, looking for something in the absence. Look for peas in the throat pouches of quails, split some meat from the legs of egrets, and extract fat from the stomachs of mosquitoes. It's a good thing that you, the old man, can do it.
2. Era: Tang Dynasty
Author: Anonymous
Did the prefect of Xuancheng know that two thousand silks were used for a one-foot blanket? The earth doesn't know how cold it is and people want to be warm. It rarely takes people's clothes to make lichen.
"Does the prefect of Xuancheng know that two thousand threads are used for a one-foot blanket? The ground does not know how cold it is and people want to be warm, so they rarely take people's clothes to make lichen." This is written by an unknown author in the Tang Dynasty. The irony is The state officials of that era, regardless of the people's ability to bear it, worked desperately to pay tribute to the emperor's carpets. What is the purpose of this prefect working so hard? Another Tang poem provided an annotation: "I passed by this county last year, and the people in the county were all complaining about their injustice. This year, the county magistrate added a red ribbon, stained with the blood of living creatures." Then we understand that the goal is to get promoted.
It is said to be "The Red Thread Carpet" written by Bai Juyi 3. An old saying that expresses selfishness and describes people who are very selfish
To sell Li Zuanhe, first get Li He, and then sell it, so that others will not get it. Good variety. Describes extreme selfishness. Source: "Shi Shuo Xin Yu·Frugal" by Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty: "Wang Rong has good plums. He sells them for fear that others will get the seeds, and the core will be drilled." The black refers to people who eat close to wealth. Greedy and selfish, love takes advantage.——The origin of the idiom about selfishness: Not even a hair will be plucked out. It originally refers to Yang Zhu’s extreme self-centeredness. Later, it was described as a very stingy and selfish person. Source: "Mencius: Devotion to the Heart": "Yang Zi takes it for me, plucking a hair and benefiting the world, I don't do it." Miss Shen, you are too old! We are told to manage mountains and eat mountains, and manage water and water, all like you~, we drink the northwest wind. ★Qing Dynasty Wu Jingzi's "The Scholars" Chapter 41 There is no one but one who is selfish, only cares about himself, and does not care about others. Source : To be selfish without forming a party means to form a clique to seek personal gain. Same as "to form a party for selfish interests". - The source of the idiom describing selfishness: Lu Xun's "Grave·Cultural Partiality Theory": "It is selfish to take advantage of many people to form a party, so Fight to prosper." Selfishness is very selfish, and it is only for personal interests. Source: "Jin Shu Panni Biography": "The combination of sorrow and disaster must be born from selfishness, and prosperity comes from desire." "Liezi Yang" "Zhu": "Yu the Great did not use one body for self-interest, and the whole body was withered." Me? Are you asking me? I am an individualist. 4. Is there any poem that can describe a person who is very selfish, who thinks he is very reasonable even though he has no reason?
The Villain Yin, Shao Yong, Song Dynasty.
Think about it with joy, and think about it with anger. The Villain's Song Shao Yong, Song Dynasty The villain is shameless and values ??profit over death.
If you are not afraid of people's execution, you will not care about material discussions. Make friends with Meng Jiao of the Tang Dynasty. Mirrors must be cast in bronze, and bronze is easy to polish.
If you make friends with villains, they will be hard to tolerate. The illustrations of cast mirrors are microscopic, and the friendship diagrams depend on each other.
No copper can shine, as villains are full of right and wrong. Twenty Poems on Spring Posts·Six Poems by the Emperor Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu Yang advances to promote a gentleman, while Yin fades to a villain.
The Holy King governs from the south and administers policies and laws in the new year. Chapter 175 Wen Tianxiang of the Song Dynasty The villain is so sleepy that he gallops quickly, but the young man is brave and energetic.
How can I follow Ru Cao when the world's affairs are so unfavorable? Read the Baiji in winter and love the poor and the strong and the lofty ideals. On the festival day, the patient will grow taller. Lu You, Song Dynasty. The villain has his own agenda, so he points to other people.
The public minister was so frightened that the river was in danger. How can there be no one in the grass, clinging to the ambition of the world? The Virtue of Wine by Meng Jiao of the Tang Dynasty Wine is an ancient mirror, tearing open the hearts of little people.
Drunk to see strange behavior, drunk to hear strange sounds. The merits of wine are so many, and the wine bending is also profound.
It is a motto that sinners are exempted from sin by wine. The Gentleman Follows Heaven's Luck by Han Yu, Tang Dynasty The Gentleman follows Heaven's Luck, and the four seasons can be known in advance.
The villain is only encountered, and the cold and heat cannot be expected. Advantages and disadvantages have constant trends, but choices are uncertain.
How can you make my heart bright and clear, far away from worries and doubts. One Hundred Quatrains of the Analects of Confucius, Song Dynasty, Zhang Jiucheng: How can a gentleman get rid of the villain? The villain is like grass and survives.
But to encourage naturalization, there is no need to strive for it. Song of the Gentleman by Shao Yong, Song Dynasty A gentleman and righteousness, a villain and benefit.
With each passing day, righteousness will prosper, and with each passing day, benefit will fade away. A gentleman is virtuous, a villain is strong.
Exalting virtue creates kindness, and admiring strength creates enemies. A gentleman brings blessings, while a villain brings authority.
If you do it, blessings will come, if you do it, misfortune will follow. A gentleman enjoys good things, while a villain enjoys evil.
Be happy when evil comes, and be happy when good comes. A gentleman likes to be praised, but a villain likes to be ruined.
He likes to destroy others and anger others, but he likes to praise others. A gentleman thinks about prosperity, while a villain thinks about evil.
Thinking of good things will bring auspiciousness, thinking of bad things will bring monsters. A gentleman is easy to get along with, but a villain is easy to seek.
Good things bring you much joy, good things bring you much worry. A gentleman likes to live, but a villain likes to kill.
It is good to live in the way of life, but it is good to kill in the way of destruction. 5. I am looking for poems or lyrics that describe the dark side of human nature, preferably in English with Chinese translation and annotations.
In life, there is a kind of greeting that is light and light, but evocative, and a kind of friendship that is still missed after all circumstances have passed. The best friend is not necessarily the one you have the most contact with, and the one you love most is not necessarily the one you know best. Of course, friendship is not used for publicity. It’s just that in a complicated society, there are more false feelings, and the truth, kindness and justice are almost being destroyed. Devoured by the evil devil, human nature appears so dark in the struggle for power and gain. Is it scary for people to say so? I think what's more terrifying is human nature.
When you understand human nature, you may be able to forgive all selfishness and weakness, all lies and betrayal. Freud said that the human heart desires both life and death.
We chase light, but we also chase darkness. We want love so much, but sometimes we waste the love in our hands almost to self-destruction... There seems to be a deserted night land in people's hearts, leaving behind To that lonely and dark self. None of us should believe that human nature has standards for judging right and wrong, and trust all outpourings.
Even if it is just a small place, like a blue lake in a remote valley, with geese flying over, the wind and waves are calm, leaving no trace, it seems useless; but it is also like it can only be discovered in the night The fireflies belong to the depths of time, and the darkness itself is the earliest memorial, written to myself.
This has to make me lament the darkness of human nature, the hypocrisy of society, and the insidiousness of people's intrigues. It also makes me admire ordinary and ordinary people like Jean Valjean for their great contributions to resisting social injustice. They are lovely. In life; Greeting clear light, aftertaste making a person is, there is a friendship changed still miss, a best friend is not contact most, favorite not always know best, of course, friendship is not used for propaganda, but the complexity of the society more is false, really good justice almost swallowed by the evil devil, human nature in the rights and interests of the struggle is so dark, hang him? I want to more terrible is supposed to be human. When you understand the human nature, you may be able to forgive all selfish and weakness, of all the lies and betrayal. Freud said that the mind, survival, and death. Chasing the light, we are also chasing darkness, so want to be loved, but sometimes almost self- destroy to squander their love.
People seem to have been also a deserted night, self for the loneliness and darkness. We should not believe that human nature has a standard to judge right and wrong, and I believe all of the talk. Even a tiny, like a remote valley on one side of the lake blue, wild goose gue flew over, all is calm, never leave traces, is useless. But also as it only discovered firefly in the night, belongs to the depths of the time, the darkness itself, is one of the most initially, addressed to himself. This had to let me sigh the darkness of human nature, the hypocrisy of society, people murky insidious, also let me to jean valjean, ordinary and ordinary people, such as against social injustice, and made great contribution, they are lovely English correction translation result score:.