1) Regarding the achievements of a scholar, is it praise or a challenge? I need the latter, because the former only intoxicates, while the latter serves as a spur. — Pasteur
2) One must have patience, and above all, confidence. — Marie Curie
3) Time waits for no one; as the years pass, hair turns to silk. — Li Bai
4) Life is a school with no graduation. — Ricard
5) Blood nourishes the grass of the Central Plains; cold freezes the earth to bloom in spring. — Lu Xun
6) The first sign of an educated mind is the ability to ask questions. — Plekhanov
7) To see a thousand miles further, one must climb another flight of stairs. — Wang Zhihuan
8) The more one reads, the emptier one feels inside. — Shelley
9) Splendid flowers cannot bloom from lies. — Heine
10) Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
11) Read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles. — Liu Yi
12) A man's death, if worthy, is as heavy as a mountain. — Qu Dajun
13) To know a person's value, you must calculate what is inside them, not what they have on them. — Bizet
14) Every man must die; some deaths are heavier than Mount Tai, others lighter than a goose feather. — Sima Qian
15) The ultimate value of life lies in the capacity for awakening and thought, not merely in survival. — Aristotle
16) A person's character is best revealed in the upheavals of fate. — Shakespeare
17) Life is composed of a cycle of varying changes, of pains and pleasures. That unchanging blue sky exists only within the soul; to demand it from real life is an extravagance. — Balzac
18) Diligence is far more precious than gold. — Saadi
19) Life only has value in struggle. — Herzen
20) Life should be like a candle, burning from top to bottom, remaining bright throughout. — Xiao Chunu
