"Confessions" is an autobiography written by the French Enlightenment thinker, philosopher, educator and writer Rousseau in his later years. It records Rousseau's life experience for more than 50 years from his birth to 1766, when he was forced to leave St. Pierre Island. At the same time, this book is also the most read classic work by young people in the French education system. There are many famous sayings in this book, which can give us some inspiration. Next, I will select a few to share with you.

1. "In order to be able and dare to speak the great truth, you must not only think about success." The meaning of this sentence is that if we want to speak the truth, we must not only think about whether we can succeed. What does this teach us? In fact, this is also a choice. When facing the temptation of the outside world, can we keep our bottom line, or will we be tempted by these external substances and lose the truth? Maybe if you don’t tell the truth, you can’t. Tell the truth, but you can achieve success because of it, but if you tell it, success will miss you, so what will you choose? It can be said that this choice is very difficult. We never know whether we prefer truth or success. This depends on personal choice.

2. "The money in our hands is a tool to maintain freedom, and the money we pursue is a tool to make ourselves slaves." The meaning of this sentence is that if we have money, we may have more freedom, because with money we can do some things we can do, but when we pursue money, we are like slaves, always chasing money. pace, in this process, we may lose ourselves. So this sentence here tells us that it is good if we have money, because it can bring us a lot of things, but if we do not have it, we should not be bound by money. We can do what we want to do without money. It's just that the method is different.

Of course, there are many famous aphorisms in this book, so I won’t introduce them to you one by one here. If you like them, you can read this book.