Yi Hwang Quotes

靑山ᄂᆞᆫ엇뎨ᄒᆞ야萬古애프르르며
流水ᄂᆞᆫ엇뎨ᄒᆞ야晝夜애긋디아니ᄂᆞᆫ고
우리도그치디마라萬古常靑호리라

古人도날몯보고나도古人몯뵈
古人를몯봐도녀던길알ᄑᆡ잇ᄂᆡ
녀던길알ᄑᆡ잇거든아니녀고엇뎔고

Even ignorant men seek perfection; perhaps the way is easy.
Not even wise men can be perfect; perhaps the way is difficult. Easy or difficult, between the two, I do not feel the advance of age.

愚夫도알며ᄒᆞ거니긔아니쉬운가
聖人도몯다ᄒᆞ시니긔아니어려운가
쉽거나엷거낫듕에늙ᄂᆞᆫ주를몰래라

...[T]he Confucian way of learning is that in order to ascend to lofty heights one must begin with the lowly, to travel afar one must begin with what is near. Indeed, to begin from the lowly and near certainly is a slow process. But apart from it, whence comes the lofty and distant? In applying one’s efforts to gradual advancement one attain what is lofty and distant without parting from what is lowly and near; it is in this that it is different from Buddhist and Daoist learning.