人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。Men have sorrow and joy； they part and meet again. The moon dims or shines； it waxes or wanes. Nothing is perfect, not even in the olden days.

人之于文学也，犹玉之于琢磨也。Learning and culture are to a man what polishing and grinding are to jade.

三人行，必有我师焉。择其善者而从之，其不善者而改之。Among any three men walking, I will find something to learn for sure. Their good qualities are to be followed, and their shortcomings are to be avoided.

善学者，假人之长以补其短。He who is keen in learning takes other people’s fortes to make up his own defects.

善学者尽其理，善行者究其难。He who is good at learning exhausts the principles. He who is good at practicing seeks to solve the most difficult problems.

身劳而心安，为之;利少而义多，为之。Do what toils the body but eases the mind，and do what brings less profits but more justice.

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石可破也，而不可夺坚;丹可磨也，而不可夺赤。Astone may 5e crushed, but not to be deprived of its hardness； a cinnabar may be grounded to pieces but not to be deprived of its redness.

士不可以不弘毅，任重而道远。仁以为己任，不亦重乎？死而后 已，不亦远乎？ An educated gentleman cannot but be resolute and broad-minded, for he has taken up a heavy responsibility and a long course. Is it not a heavy responsibility, which is to practice benevolence? Is it not a long course, which will end only with his death?

士之为人，当理不避其难，临患忘利，遗生行义，视死如归。A moral intellectual is one who escapes no danger in face of truth, discards personal interests in front of disaster, practices righteousness at the expense of life, and looks upon death as going home.

逝者如斯夫！不舍昼夜。The passage of time is just like the flow of water, which goes on day and night.

水火有气而无生，草木有生而无知，禽兽有知而无义;人有气、有 生、有知，亦且有义，故最为天下贵也。Fire and water possess a spirit but no life, grass and trees possess a life but no awareness, birds and animals possess awareness but no sense of morality. Only humans possess spirit, life, awareness, as well as the sense of morality, hence the noblest beings in the world.

水之积也不厚,则其负大舟也无力；风之积也不厚，则其负大翼也 无力。Without sufficient depth, no water can float large boats. Without sufficient density, no wind can support large birds.

顺天者昌，逆天者亡。Those who follow the Heaven’s law will flourish and those who go against it will perish.

虽有佳肴，弗食不知其旨也;虽有至道,弗学不知其善也。是故学 然后知不足，教然后知困。知不足，然后能自反也；知困，然后能自强 也。故日教子相长也。Delicious as may the food be, one never knows its taste except eating it； perfect as may the course be, one never knows its goodness except learning it. Thus it is after learning that 504 one knows his deficiency? and after teaching one discovers his confusion. Knowing of his deficiency stimulates him into self- examination； and discovery of his confusion leads him to self- improving. That's why we say teaching and learning encourage each other.

天道亏盈而益谦，地道变盈而流谦，人道恶盈而好谦。lt is the way of Heaven to lessen the full to complement the humble, and the way of Earth to change the full to replenish the humble, and the way of Man to hate the full to cherish the humble.