Don’t bend your waist for five measures of rice - Tao Yuanming
Wealth cannot be lascivious, poverty cannot be moved, power cannot be surrendered - "Mencius·Teng Wen Gong"
Chen Yi "Green Pine": Heavy snow presses on the green pine, and the green pine stands tall and straight. You should know that the pines are noble and pure until the snow melts.
"An Neng can bend his eyebrows and bend his waist to serve the powerful, which makes me unhappy!" - Li Bai's "Sleepwalking Tianmu Yin Farewell"