No matter how dark and evil the society or the people and things around you are, you should not be like them and keep your own integrity and sobriety. Famous verses that express not being complicit in the secular world include:

1. An Neng can bend his eyebrows and bend his waist to serve the powerful, which makes me unhappy. From Li Bai's "Sleepwalking in Tianmu Ling Liu Farewell";

2. The tragedy of genius is to be bound by small and comfortable fame. From Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "The Words of the Dwarf";

3. I like to have my own opinions on everything and disdain to follow other people's rights and wrongs. From Shen Fu's "Six Chapters of a Floating Life";

4. Coming out of the mud but not stained, washing the clear ripples without being evil. From Zhou Dunyi's "Ai Lian Shuo".