Inkstone Essays and Hundred-Character Proverbs - Wise Sayings of Sages and Mingjuns

Relax with a big belly and let God arrange freely.

Be tolerant and tolerant, and everything in the world will be successful or unsuccessful.

I have experienced happiness before, and I have experienced hardships.

It depends on fate, but I can’t help but be patient.

Gentleness is the foundation of a person's life, and strength is the womb of trouble.

A man who is neither quarrelsome nor jealous is a wise man. What's the harm in doing wrong to us?

A blunt ax can easily break stone, but a sharp knife can hardly cut water.

How many heroes have survived throughout the ages?

——The Hundred-Character Proverb of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty

I can’t believe that this hundred-character motto was actually written by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin. When I read it for the first time, I felt that the author was an open-minded and humble gentleman; when I read it again, it seemed like it was a warning and exhortation to civil and military officials from a generation of wise kings; when I read it for a third time, it seemed like the sincerity of the ancient sages and sages to the people of the world. The training is full of profound philosophy of self-cultivation, family governance and country governance.

Proverbs are true words. Reading and memorizing it will definitely benefit us a lot.