Treasure not a foot long piece of jade, rather treasure an inch of time.
（John S. Rohsenow 译）
盖文章，经国之大业，不朽之盛事。年寿有时而尽，荣乐止乎其身，二者必至之常期，未若文章之无穷。——曹丕：《典论．论文》
Literature is no less noble an activity than the governing of a state; it is also a way immorality. The years pass and one's life runs out its natural course. Honours and pleasures cease to be with one's body. Against these inexorable facts, literature lives on to eternity.
（Siu-Kit Wong 编译）
杀不辜者，得不祥焉。——《墨子．法仪》
He who murders the innocent will be visited by misfortune.
（《中国古代名言词典》）
富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈，此之谓大丈夫。——《孟．滕文公下》
He can not be led into dissipation by wealth and rank, nor deflected from his aim bypoverty and obscurity, nor made to bend by power and force—all this is characteristic of a great man.
（赵甄陶等 译）
有道之士，贵以近知远，以今知古，以所见知所不见。——《吕氏春秋．察今》
A man of learning and virtue is valued for knowing the far by the near, understanding the ancient by the present, and perceiving the invisible by the visible.