from: Hugo (French writer).
definition: if you have not experienced a painful life, you are not a respectable person.
2. The three armed forces can win the handsome position, but ordinary men can't win the ambition.
from: the Analects of Confucius zihan.
Interpretation: The army can be without generals, but ordinary people can't be without ideals. One should be firm in faith and unswerving. .
3. Reading all good books means talking to many noble people.
said by Descartes (French philosopher, mathematician and physicist).
Interpretation: All good books are like talking to the most outstanding people in the world in the past.
4. Suffering is the teacher of life. Through suffering, we can move towards happiness.
from: Beethoven (a famous German musician).
Interpretation: Suffering can sharpen people's minds, and you will accumulate more life experience through struggling with suffering, so suffering is the teacher of life. After suffering and brave struggle, we can achieve success and move towards happiness.
5. It's better to retreat and make a net than to go to the grave.
from: Biography of Dong Zhongshu in Historical Records.
Interpretation: You are standing by the pond. Instead of eagerly expecting and fantasizing about the fish, you might as well go back and work hard to make a fishing net, so that you won't worry about getting fish. Warn the rulers that to govern the country well, we must grasp the concept and system.
6. Who among all sentient beings doesn't love life? Love life, and then love the group.
from: Qiu Jin (the advocator of China's feminism and women's studies, and a modern democratic revolutionary).
Definition: With so many people in the world, who doesn't cherish their own life? When you cherish your life to a certain extent, you will be sublimated and love everyone.
7. Swallows play in the woods, and they know how to swim with a swan.
from: Cao Zhi (a famous writer of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period).
definition: to despise others and say that others are compared with themselves is simply a swan and a sparrow.