1. If you are rich, you can help the world; if you are poor, you can only take care of yourself.

From "Mencius · Devoting Your Heart".

It means: When you don’t have your ambition, you should clean yourself up and cultivate your personal moral character. When you have your ambition, you can make the world do the same.

2. Worry about the world’s worries first, and rejoice after the world’s happiness.

From Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower".

Meaning: Be sad before the people of the world are sad, and be happy after the people of the world are happy.” In this sentence, the author also places his political ambition of taking the world as his own responsibility.

3. Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.

Comes from the social proposition of Gu Yanwu, a famous Confucian in the early Qing Dynasty.

Meaning: Every ordinary person has a share in the rise or fall of a country. Responsibility.

4. The journey of the great road is for the common good.

From the Book of Rites and Liyun Chapter of the Western Han Dynasty.

Meaning: The world belongs to the people, and if we select people with high moral character and talents, (everyone) pays attention to integrity, and cultivates a harmonious atmosphere, it will be a good society.

5. Benefit the country. Whether it is life or death, we should not avoid misfortune or fortune.

From Lin Zexu's poem "Going to the garrison and showing off to the family"

Meaning: As long as it is beneficial to the country, even if it is to sacrifice one's own life. He is also willing and will never run away because he may be harmed.