Things in the world are best laughed off rather than washed away with tears. ——Tagore

Commentary: For some things, it is best to cry when you want to, instead of delaying yourself with laughter.

The loneliness of the soul is the most terrifying and difficult thing to endure. ——Jiang Zilong

Annotation: If a person dares to be lonely, it means that his soul is not lonely; if a person dares to make his soul lonely, I think his courage and brilliance are almost divine.

It is easier to stay on the outside than to get out of the inside. ——Mark Twain

Commentary: Sometimes it takes more wisdom and strength to insist on staying outside.

A person cannot see his own beauty, and his beauty can only be reflected in the eyes of others. ——Shakespeare

Annotation: Be aware that your beauty is reflected as ugly in the eyes of others; in a function, in addition to independent variables and function values, there is a corresponding rule.

I love you because you know everything, but you are silent. ——Gorky

Commentary: I despise you because you are silent, but in fact you know everything.

There are three kinds of friends: friends who love you, friends who hate you, and friends who forget you. ——Sang Fei

Annotation: A friend who hates you does not necessarily have no love, but a friend who forgets you definitely does not have love.

Don’t trust a jackal. Give him a finger and he will eat your whole arm. ——Proverb

Commentary: Don’t trust a stone either. If you give him the whole arm, he won’t even want a finger.

I would rather see a young man blush than see his face turn pale. ——Cato

Commentary: I would rather see a young man's face turn pale than see his face neither red nor pale.

Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. ——Keats

Commentary: The truth is often cruel, and the illusion may not lack the brilliance of humanity.

The only way to turn a perceptual person into a rational person is to first make him an aesthetic person. ——Schiller

Commentary: If you want to change a rational person into an emotional person, the first way is to make him a person who loves beauty.

If used improperly, the sharp edge will become dull. ——Shakespeare

Annotation: It’s the same with a knife. The handle can’t cut things, and you can’t hold the blade to cut things. Isn’t this the way to be a friend?

The past is forgotten like smoke, and my heart is selfless and wide. ——Tao Zhu

Commentary: This feeling just needs to be cooked with wine, and the bright moon will shine on the first floor.

It is equally wrong not to trust anyone and to trust anyone. ——Seneca

Annotation: It is the biggest mistake to believe someone you shouldn’t believe.

Utility is the purpose of a machine and the basis for testing the value of the machine, while kindness is only the purpose and will of human beings. ——Tagore

Commentary: Utilitarianism means treating society and others as machines while turning oneself into a machine.

In a place shrouded in poverty, there is no talk of chastity and crime, no talk of morality and wisdom. ——Balzac

Commentary: The pain caused by the gradual accumulation of the burden of life cannot be easily conveyed by others. When life tortures people repeatedly, some people leave the human world of right and wrong. What we say about someone is often not what he thinks he is. Fortunately, this is also sad.