一尺之棰，日取其半，万世不竭。
A foot pole, take half a day, forever.
真者，精诚之至也。不精不诚，不能动人。
True, is fine and is sincere. Not fine and not sincere, not moving.
夫鹄不日浴而白，乌不日黔而黑。
Swan doesn’t bath is white, crow doesn’t dye is black.
鸟兽不厌高，鱼鳖不厌深。
Birds and animals never tire of being high, and fish and turtles never tire of being deep.
以随侯之珠，弹千仞之雀，世必笑之。
Shoot birds with pearls，that will be laughed at the world.
不以物挫志
Don’t take things to demoralise.
汝不知夫螳啷乎，怒其臂以当车辙，不知其不胜任也，是其才之美者也。
Don’t you know a praying mantis? Angry their arms as a rut, do not know their incompetence, is the beauty of their talent.
简发而栉，数米而炊，窃窃乎又何足以济世哉！
Simple hair and comb, and cooking, stealing and what is enough to help the world!
人生天地之间，若白驹过隙，忽然而已。
Life between heaven and earth, if the gap of white pony, suddenly just.
井蛙不可以语于海者，拘于虚也；夏虫不可以语于冰者，笃于时也。
Well frog can not say in the sea, confine in the wells; Summer insects can not speak to the iceman, time is different.
泉涸，鱼相与处于陆，相呴以湿，相濡以沫， 不如相忘于江湖。
Spring water is arid, fish went to land, ring to wet, and mutual help each other, as forget in rivers and lakes.
君子之交淡如水，小人之交甘若醴。
The friendship between gentleman appears different but is pure like water. The friendship between small man is sweet like wine.
衰末大于心死，而人死亦次之。
There is no greater sorrow than death of heart, and death of man.
人心险于山川，难于知天。
The heart of man is dangerous like mountain and river, is difficult to know heaven.
知其不可奈何而安之若命，德之至也。
Knowing that it can not be but if is life, virtual is that.
道隐于小成，言隐于荣华。
The Tao hides from the little success, the words are hidden in glory.
肌肤若冰雪，绰约若处子；不食五谷，吸风饮露；乘云气，御飞龙，而游乎四海之外。
Skin as snow, as virgin; Do not eat grain, drink dew; Riding the clouds and the dragon, travelling far and wide.
至乐无乐，至誉无誉。
Very joy and no joy, very fame and no fame.
彼窃钩者诛，窃国者为诸侯，诸侯之门而仁义存焉。
The one who steals the hook is punished, the one who steals the state is a vassal. The vassal’s gate is one of benevolence and righteousness.
好面誉人者，亦好背而毁之。
Those who honour others with a good face, and those who destroy them with good backs.
尾生与女子期于梁下，女子不来，水至不去，抱梁柱而死。
The man named Wei Shen, he and the girl period under the beam, but the girl does not come, the water does not go, he holds the beam and column and die.
言者所以在意，得意而忘言。
The speaker so care, proud and forget to speak.
美成在久，恶成不及改。
Beauty lasts for a long time, but evil never changes.
吾生有涯，而知无涯。
Life is limited, and knowledge is not limited.
语之所贵者，意也。意有所随。意之所随者，不可言传也，而世因贵言传书。
For language, one of important is meaning. Meaning has followed. Meaning can understand but not said, the world because of your words.
福轻乎羽，莫之知载； 祸重乎地，莫之知避。
Happiness is light likes feather, do not know loading; disaster is heavy on the ground, do not know to avoid .
灾人者，人必反灾之。
He who plagues others will be punished.
凫胫虽短，续之则忧； 鹤胫虽长，断之则悲。
Duck’s foot is short, continued is worry; Crane’s foot is long but cut is sorrow,
以天下为沈浊，不可与庄语。以卮言为曼衍，以重言为真，以寓言为广。
To the world as turbidities, do not with formal language, so use Zhi Yan talk with ordinary, Zhong Yan talk with true and Yu Yan talk with wide.
木与木相摩则然，金与火相守则流。
Wood and wood are like, gold and fire will flow.
农夫无草莱之事则不比，商贾无市井之事则不比。
The farmer has no grass things than other, business man has no market than other.
时雨降矣，而犹浸灌，其于泽世，不亦劳乎！
When the rain fall, immersion irrigation, wet all land, not as well on !
众人重利，廉士重名，贤士尚志，圣人贵精。
All the people care for benefit, honest man care for his name, the sage has ambition, the holy man is spirit.
来世不可待，往世不可追也。
The afterlife is not to be, the past is not pursue.
天地与我并生，而万物与我为一。
Heaven and earth were born with me, and all things are one with me.
狗不以善吠为良，人不以善言为贤。
Dogs do not take barking for good, a person does not take good words for good.
学而不能行谓之病。
Learn without doing that should be sick.
巧者劳而知者忧，无能者无所求。
The clever man is working, the wise man is worrying, incompetent, desire nothing.
天地有大美而不言，四时有明法而不议，万物有成理而不说。
Heaven and earth have great beauty but do not speak, four times have bright law but do not discuss, all things have reasons but do not say.
不能容人者无亲，无亲者尽人。
He who can not tolerate others will no relatives, and no relatives will do nothing.
形固可使如槁木，而心固可使如死灰乎？
The form is rigid as dry as a stick, the heart is rigid as dead as ashes.
荃者所以在鱼，得鱼而忘荃。
A man finds the herb but discover fish, so got fish and forget herbs.
朴素而天下莫能与之争美。
Simplicity and the world can not compete with the beauty.
彼亦一是非，此亦一是非。
That is a criterion of right and wrong, and this is another.
生而美者，人与之鉴，不告则不知其美于人也。
The beauty was born, with the mirror, if do not tell, no one knows its beauty.
四时相代相生相杀。
The four phases change and born and kill each other.
孝子不谀其亲，忠臣不谄其君。
A dutiful son does not flatter his relatives, a royal minister does not flatter his prince.
以目视目，以耳听耳，以心复心。
See with the eye, hear with the ear, and heart to heart.
安时而处顺，哀乐不能入也。
The peaceful time at usual, the sad music can not enter.
知足者，不以利自累也；审自得者，失之而不惧；行修于内者，无位而不怍。
The contented man, doesn’t use benefit tire himself. The man who has self-knowledge, even lost but doesn’t fear, always takes care of inner world, no position no ashamed.
忘足，履之适也；忘要，带之适也；知忘是非，心之适也。
Forget foot, shoe of comfort; Forget back, belt of comfort; Forget right and wrong, the heart is comfortable.
凡交近则必相靡以信，远则必忠之以言。
For contact, with the closer must be believe, with the far will be loyal to the words.
用管窥天，用锥指地。
Peeping at the sky with a pipe, pointing at the earth with a cone.
孰恶孰美，成者为首，不成者为尾
Who is evil and who is beauty? Success is the first, failure is the last.
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