unable to find a word to justify oneself

make a fortune by avarice

knowledge from hearsay(secondhand knowledge)

Crazy friends

Vow to annihilate the rebels

Wait for each other

Confucian sentiment

eloquence that generates perfume (idiom); profound and significant text

be on constant run for worldly pursuits

Spy on each other

Empty grain and white horse

would rather die than be disgraced

A bad government is more fearful than a tiger.

all talk and no do

cut the knot(make lightning decisions)

kowtow incessantly like the pounding of garlic in a mortar

can be gazed but not approached

have nothing to eat but chaff and wild herbs for half the year

draw the bow but not to discharge the arrow

cut a large thong of another man's leather