The May Day aphorisms are as follows:

1. On the basis of attaching importance to labor and respecting workers, it is possible for us to create our own new morality. Labor and science are the two greatest forces in the world.

2. Love of labor is one of the main components of communist morality. But only after the working class wins, labor, the indispensable condition of human life, will no longer be a heavy and shameful burden, but become an honorable and heroic cause.

3. If you can successfully choose labor and pour all your energy into it, then happiness itself will find you.

4. When I do something, I don’t just do it when others ask me to do it, but I do it even when others don’t ask me to do it. In this way, it will be interesting and rewarding.

5. From now on, I will no longer look up at the blue sky or look down at the white water. I will only watch my steps carefully. I will not step on the soil and leave deep footprints!

6. The establishment of the socialist system has opened up a way for us to reach the ideal state, and the realization of the ideal state depends on our hard work.

7. Science is not something that can be gained without hard work - indeed, there is no other way to achieve science except sweating; neither enthusiasm nor fantasy nor desire with the whole body and mind can replace labor.

8. Genius cannot make people do not have to work, nor can it replace labor. To develop genius, one must study for long periods of time and work with high intensity. The more talented a person is, the more complex and important the tasks he faces.

9. Things that are obtained through effort are more popular than things that are obtained without effort. The truth that is obvious at a glance can be understood effortlessly. Once you understand it, you will feel temporarily happy, but it will soon be forgotten.

10. My life is basically just hard work. I can say that I have lived for seventy-five years and have not lived a comfortable life for a month. It is like pushing a stone up a mountain. He rolled down and then pushed up again.

11. It is labor itself that constitutes the main factor in the happiness you pursue. Any enjoyment that is not obtained through hard work will soon become boring and uninteresting.

12. Do not rest on the achievements you have already made, but work bravely and strive to hold the championship of labor in your own hands for a long time.

13. If children let themselves do whatever they want without working, they will neither learn literature, nor music, nor physical education, nor the guarantee. Etiquette at the highest level of morality.

14. We learn to think in the process of our labor. As a result of our labor, we understand the mystery of the world, and then we truly change our lives.

15. I have loved both mental work and physical work all my life. Perhaps I even love physical work more. I feel even more satisfied when any excellent understanding, that is, the combination of hands and brain, is added to physical labor.