Han Yu’s famous sayings are as follows:

1. The water flows eastward but never returns, and the beauty and white hair destroy each other one by one.

2. If you study diligently, you will have something, but if you don’t study diligently, you will feel empty.

3. Read thousands of volumes and write like a master.

4. Take the country’s affairs as your own responsibility.

5. It is ridiculous that a small insect shakes a big tree.

6. There must be a main peak among all the majestic mountains, and Longgun is the only leader among the nine chapters.

7. The work is accomplished by diligence but neglected by play; the success is achieved by thinking but destroyed by casualness.

8. Reading is for learning, and narration is for writing. It is not about boasting and fighting against others. Gai Xue is the Tao, and Literary is the reason.

9. Although the golden jade is a valuable treasure, it is difficult to store the money. Knowledge is hidden in the body, and there is more than enough in the body.

10. Ancient scholars must have teachers, so they are those who understand their profession and achieve their morality.

11. There is Bole in the world, and then there is a thousand-mile horse. Thousand-mile horses often exist but Bole does not always exist.

12. People are not born with knowledge. How can anyone be free from confusion? If you are confused and do not follow the teacher, it is confusion, and you will not be able to understand it in the end.

13. It’s not that you prefer wine when spring comes, you should have wine to relieve the sorrow of spring.

14. Among all kinds of people in life, knowledge is the most wise.

15. Universal love is called benevolence, and acting appropriately is called righteousness.

16. Human relationships should not be different, and the world is full of power and deceit.

17. Work is accomplished by hard work but not by play, success is achieved by thinking and destroyed by laziness.

18. Although there is a thousand-mile horse, it will be carelessly grown and be dead in a stall, never being called a thousand-mile horse.

19. If you don’t study much, you will suffer from unclear ideas; if you don’t learn enough, you will suffer from it.

20. The cold has penetrated into the bones of the mountains, and the grass and trees have become hard and thin.