The classic sentences and translations in the Kuang Shiqi book Caigen Tan .

Original text: You must have three points of chivalry when making friends, and you must be a little plain.

Translation: To make friends, you must have a chivalrous spirit, and you must have a pure heart in life.

Comments: There are many reasons to become friends, but there is no doubt that chivalry is the most important quality among friends, and in today's world, the stars are rising and stopping, and making friends is to look at people with fame and fortune to make friends, and the meaning of making friends has been lost. Making friends is to make friends with some like-minded righteous gentlemen, and to be a fair and honest gentleman is not a happy thing in life.

Original text: Favor is not in front of others, and morality is not left behind; The enjoyment is not exceeded, and the cultivation is not subtracted.

Translation: Personal fame, fortune and favor do not have to be fought for in front of others, and things that are beneficial to society and morality should not be left behind, but should be actively done; We should be careful not to overstep our own duties in the things we deserve, and we should work hard to improve our self-cultivation and self-cultivation for self-cultivation and moral cultivation.

Comments: The worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world. Since Fan Zhongyan, it has become the standard for people to pursue a perfect morality.

This standard may be too high for ordinary people, but in order to be unmoved in the face of fame and fortune, not to covet things other than their own interests, and to work hard in cultivating character, we must work hard to overcome ourselves, and we cannot live for fame and fortune all our lives. Our perception of the outside world, especially fame and fortune, is actually the result of our intention to climb outward, rather than what we sincerely seek from within.

Original text: The dung insect is filthy, turning into a cicada and drinking dew in the autumn wind; The rotten grass has no light, turning into fireflies and shining in the summer. Because the knowledge of purity is often self-defiled, and every light is born from obscurity.

Translation: The worm in the dung is the dirtiest thing, but once it transforms into a cicada, it can suck the clean dew of autumn for a living; The rotten weed doesn't glow, but when it turns into a firefly, it glows brightly on a summer night. From this, we can see that cleanliness often comes from impurity, and light often comes from darkness.

Comments: A person's environment does not determine a person's fate, pampering may lead to a person's corruption and depravity, and being in a desperate situation may stimulate fighting spirit. The process of making mistakes is a process of accumulating experience, and the process of failure is also a process of approaching success.

It can be seen that a person does not have to worry too much about the surrounding personnel environment and natural environment. The sun rises in the east, the motherland ushers in a sunny morning, but the country on the other side of the earth is still at night, there are both bright places and dark places on the earth, but the earth is not divided into two, it is still a whole; The human heart has both a bright side and a dark side, and it exists in our hearts at the same time, and this is determined by our own self-satisfaction, and it depends only on our intentions.