Tell me, what is the most important virtue of a courtier? Survival. Nothing else matters than to survive. I will be needing you and your brothers one day. So endure, no matter what.
你知道当官的书生，最需要注重的品德是什么吗？就是坚持，即便四周拔刀相向、泼你脏水，你也要坚持住，总有一天，寡人会迫切需要你们兄弟俩，所以无论发生何事，都要坚持下去。
I will not die looking down at the ground. Let me die gazing up at the sky.
与其低头看着地面死去，不如让我仰望着天空死去。
Do not be ashamed, Brother. Disgrace by death can never be rectified, but as long as we live, we can always regain our honor. Let's try to survive as long as we can.
别觉得可耻，如果死了才被羞辱，没有机会能平反，但活着被羞辱，还有机会能平反，我们要坚持到底。
He's writing calligraphy...She's preparing dinner...Totally looks like we're married.
男人写字，女人摘地瓜叶，别人看了，还以为我们是夫妻呢。
All this time, I studied Neo-Confucianism, Laozi, Zhuangzi, even Western Learning. It was all in order to learn the proper path of mankind. But as it turns out, I know less about humans...than he knows about fish! So instead of never-ending, obscure learnings about human nature, I will now turn to clear and precise studies about objects. I intend to forget about myself through the nature of things.
我活在现在，学过性理学，老庄思想、西学，我什么都学，就是为了了解人们该何去何从，可我所领悟的知识，却不比这家伙对鱼类了解得多，所以今后，我不愿再研究捉摸不清的人类，我要转而研究通透明净的事物，想借事物来忘却自我。
Zhu Xi wrote the Great Learning later to establish Neo-Confucianism. So, you should first read Zhu Xi's teacher, Confucius. "Ja-Wal-Hak, Shi-Seup-Ji" "Bul-Yeok-Yeol-Ho" "Yoo-Boong-Ja-Won, Bang-Rae" "Bul-Yeok-Nak-Ho". Do not worry that others don't give you recognition.
现在的《大学》是朱子当时为了创立性理学，后来才编纂的，但朱子所学一切源于孔子，所以要先学习孔子说的话，子曰：“学而时习之，不亦说乎？”，“有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？”，不要担心别人不了解自己，患不知人也。
"To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also." Do you know what that means? It means that you should forgive, you raging idiot.
若有人打你的右脸，就把左脸也给他打吧，你知道这是什么意思吗？就是要你饶恕别人啊，笨蛋。
Being versed in poetry but not knowing how to fish. Being versed in fishing but not knowing poetry.
会写诗的人不会捕鱼，会捕鱼的人不会写诗。
Master, a book is supposed to represent the universal truth that no one can refute like the Analects or Mencius.
老师，所谓的书，应该要像《论语》《孟子》一样，写明没有任何人能推翻的真理，让人不得不遵循那条路，这才能叫书吧。
When I was a boy, I read books to impress you, Father. When I grew older, I studied not to embarrass you, and not to be called a fatherless idiot. But no one could care less. Now I want to be a nobleman too, and finally live like a human being.
我小时候，为了得到爹的肯定而拚命读书，长大之后，为了不让爹蒙羞，不让人笑我没爹教，才继续拚命读书，但即便如此，仍然没有任何人认同我。
People care only about the seed and not the field. What use is memorizing the Analec- or whatever? You only care about the seeds from the father. No one cares about the mother who bears the baby. Like everything in this world, the father's seed is the true origin. What use is the origin? Or just sprinkling seeds?
就是只认为种子重要，忽略了地才更珍贵啊，您光会背《论语》《大学》，有什么用呢？只认为播种的爹重要，而把历经生育之痛、养育孩子的娘抛在脑后，因为那就像天降万物一样，爹的种子就是始祖，才这样认为的吧，成为始祖又怎样，只会播种有什么用？
If the field is shit, the seed can't sprout, and even if it does sprout, without proper soil it won't grow. What's the point of all your studies? You sons all need to learn how to value your mothers! I'm saying, men need to appreciate women too!
地不好的话，种子才不会发芽，土不好的话，就算发了芽也长不大，这些你都学过，你还不懂吗？所以孩子们也得知道娘亲的重要性，男人也得知道女人的珍贵。
If you want to catch the eel, sometimes you have to go into the mud...
如果想要抓到泥鳅，就必须进到泥滩里。
Chang-dae, you may want the lofty life of the white crane. But life as This Mountain that embraces dirty splashes of the world...Don't you think that's meaningful, also? Darling, I'm happy we're returning to Black Mountain.
昌大，如鹤般清高地活着固然很好，但像这对全身沾满泥水和污水的人，也来者不拒的兹山般，做个没没无闻的人，应该也是很有意义的吧。