Author packs (Pro pack in the app)

Caigentan Quotes — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes from Caigentan, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   Where the path is narrow, stop and let another pass first

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese路徑窄處，留一步與人行

   Copy
2. 4

   The mouth is the gate of the mind

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese口乃心之門

   Copy
3. 8

   Time is long by nature; the busy make it short for themselves

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese歲月本長，而忙者自促

   Copy
4. 16

   Virtue is the foundation of every undertaking

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese德者，事業之基

   Copy
5. 32

   Rebuke only as much as one can bear

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese攻人之惡毋太嚴，要思其堪受

   Copy
6. 64

   Yielding one step is the very ground for advancing one step

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese退步即進步的張本

   Copy
7. 128

   View flowers half-open; drink wine just to gentle tipsiness

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese花看半開，酒飲微醉

   Copy
8. 256

   True stillness is stillness in motion

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese靜中靜非真靜，動處靜得來，才是性天之真境

   Copy
9. 512

   Calm in favor or scorn, flowers fall

   — Hong Zicheng

   Original · Classical Chinese寵辱不驚，閑看庭前花開花落

   Copy
10. 1024

    Wind passes; the bamboo keeps no sound

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese風來疏竹，風過而竹不留聲

    Copy
11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    A wide heart makes riches a clay jar

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese心曠則萬鍾如瓦缶

    Copy
12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    Fighting on a snail's horn, how wide?

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese蝸牛角上，爭雄競雌

    Copy
14. 8192

    In the midst of clamor, keep one cool observing eye

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese熱鬧中著一冷眼

    Copy
15. 16384

    Kindness should go from light to generous

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese恩宜自淡而濃

    Copy
16. 32768

    Better to accept a moment's solitude than an eternity of desolation

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese寧受一時之寂寞，毋取萬古之淒涼

    Copy
17. 65536

    Water flows, flowers fall, mind calm

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese水流任急境常靜，花落雖頻意自閒

    Copy
18. 131072

    Time bends to thought, space to heart

    — Hong Zicheng

    Original · Classical Chinese延促由於一念，寬窄係之寸心

    Copy