“Only mediocre people in the world have no blame and no reputation.” This sentence comes from a famous saying of Zeng Guofan: “The world is turbulent and chaos is endless. People with ambition and insight succumb to fame, lose themselves in the years, and are in a dilemma. What about being a doctor? It’s not as good as being sick and living.”

This sentence means that there are only mediocre people in the world who have no faults and no praise. Talents with lofty ambitions and outstanding insights are often trapped in fame and oblivion in the passage of time, and are in a dilemma. They are like doctors who can only treat patients but not the world.

This sentence tells us that only those with lofty ambitions and outstanding insights can transcend personal achievements and faults and assume greater responsibilities and missions. But mediocre people can only be trapped by fame and cannot obtain real achievements and values. Therefore, we should constantly pursue excellence and growth so that we can become people who make greater contributions to society and the country.