Ten famous quotes from Zuo Zongtang’s biography include:

1. Learning is like talent. If you don’t advance every day, you will retreat every day.

2. Don’t be bullied when you are in poverty; don’t be envied by others when you are prosperous.

3. Those who like cheap things should not make money with them, and those who are suspicious should not do anything with them.

4. I don’t have half an acre, but I worry about the world. Read thousands of volumes and make friends with the ancients.

5. In this way, it gradually increases and hears everything; suddenly it transcends and transcends the world.

6. Choose a high place to stand, sit on a flat place, and walk toward a wide place.

7. Everything is inconsistent with heaven and earth, and nothing can express the feelings of the past and the present.

8. Reading unseen books is like finding a good friend; reading unseen books is like meeting an old friend.

9. If you don’t advance in academic knowledge, you will retreat.

10. Make high-level wishes, make middle-level connections, and enjoy low-level blessings. Choose a high place to stand, sit on a flat place, and walk toward a wide place.