1. 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。
Learning without thinking leads to confusion; thinking without learning ends in danger.

2. 学而不厌，诲人不倦。
Never be contented with your study; never be impatient with your teaching.

3. 学如逆水行舟，不进则退。
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

4. 有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎。
It is such a delight to have friends coming from far away.

5. 不登高山，不知天之厚也；不临深渊，不知地之厚也。
One can never be aware of the height of the sky or the depth of the earth, if he does not climb up a high mountain or look down into a deep abyss.

6. 玉不琢，不成器。人不学，不知义。
As a jade without chiseling will not become a useful object, a man without learning will not know the way.

7. 大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风流人物。
The endless river eastward flows; with its huge waves are gone all those gallant heroes of bygone years.

8. 欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。
We widen our views three hundred miles by ascending one flight of stairs. Exhausting my eyes to a thousand li further, I am ascending one more story of the tower.

9. 在天愿做比翼鸟，在地愿为连理枝。
In heaven let us be two birds flying ever together, and on earth two trees with branches interlocked forever.

10. 大道之行也，天下为公。
A public spirit will rule all under the sky when the great Way prevails.

11. 丹青不知老将近，富贵于我如浮云。
Absorbed in painting, you know not old age is coming; indeed, to me wealth and rank are like clouds scudding.

12. 曲则全，枉则直，洼则盈，敝则新，少则得，多则惑。
To be part is to be whole; to be bent is to be straight; to be hollow is to be filled; to be worn out is to be renewed; to have little is to have more; to have much is to be confused.