The most fortunate thing for a person is that he has not suffered great mental pain or physical pain in his life, rather than that he has enjoyed many intense joys.

If there is no pain at all and it is not boring, it is the real happiness in the world, and everything else is false.

The most effective way to stay away from great misfortune is to try to reduce our requirements for life according to our own abilities and conditions.

A crucial aspect of wisdom in life is to strike the right balance between focusing on the present and looking to the future.

A person who does not like to be alone is a person who lacks love for freedom, because a person can only gain freedom when he is alone. Nature makes great differences in moral and intellectual levels between people, but society cannot see these differences and treat everyone in the same way.

The first thing young people need to learn is to endure loneliness, because happiness and happiness arise from loneliness.

A person may be blind to his own shortcomings and disgustingness, but he will see these things in others.

Polite words and deeds are like counterfeit money. Only stupid people will be stingy and miserly in using counterfeit money, while smart people will be very generous... However, sacrificing one's own interests to remain polite is not paying for counterfeit money. , but paid in gold.

If people’s evil deeds will be punished in the next life, then people’s stupid deeds will be punished in this life.

When we are alive, we can only achieve success by carrying a sword forward; when we die, the weapon is still firmly in our hands. ——Voltaire

All happiness is false, only pain is real. Therefore, at this time, we just want to strive to achieve a state without pain and annoyance, rather than pursue happiness and pleasure, at least for rational people.

A mature person can eliminate prejudice and emancipate his mind through his own life experience; from this, he will find that the world is completely different from what he saw when he was a child and young man.

When we were young, we mistakenly believed that the appearance of important people and the occurrence of major events in life would be grand. However, after we grow old, through reviewing and thinking about our lives, we understand that these people and things entered our lives silently and unintentionally through the back door.

What we know about death is hearsay.

The longer we live, the fewer meaningful and important things we have to recall.

When life comes to an end, it is like a masquerade that is about to end, and everyone takes off their masks.

No matter how long we live, all we can enjoy is the inseparable moment and nothing else.

Death is the great source of life.