Reading a good book is talking to (many) noble people. - Goethe

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Eckermann recorded Goethe (Goethe)'s conversation, but this sentence should be a famous quote from René Descartes borrowed by Goethe. Its English translation is as follows:

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.-- Descartes

Chinese meaning: All good books, reading them is like talking to the most outstanding people in the world in the past.