2 self-love is the greatest flatterer.
3 We only reached such a discovery in the exploration of self-love: self-love is still an unknown world to us.
4 self-love is smarter than the smartest person in the world.
5 when our life is interrupted, our passion will end.
6 Passion often makes the smartest person crazy and the stupidest fool smart.
7 those great and brilliant actions that dazzle people's eyes like famous paintings are the performances of some politicians, but they are just the ordinary results of some emotions and passions. Similarly, the struggle between Auguste and Anthony, which people say is that they have the ambition to dominate the world, may be just the result of suspicion. (Auguste is generally translated as Augustus here, the early days of the ancient Roman Empire-note of thugs)
8 Passion is the only speaker who always persuades. They seem to give their masters a natural skill, and their rules are accurate. The most stupid person with passion is more convincing than the most eloquent person without passion.
9 Passion has its own unjust hobby, which makes its owner do very dangerous things. We should guard against them, even when passion seems to be the most rational.
1 Passions are constantly generated in people's minds: the elimination of one passion almost always means the establishment of another.
11 Passion often stirs up things that are opposite to oneself. Some miserliness leads to profligacy, and profligacy sometimes leads to meanness; People often achieve strength through weakness and courage through cowardice.
12 under the skin of the pious and glorious unicorn, the clues of the lust that people have painstakingly tried to hide are revealed.
13 our self-love follows the guidance of our interests more than our opinions.
14 people are not only ungrateful, but also swallow their hatred, and even bite the hand that feeds them, recognizing their enemies as friends; Good should be rewarded with good, and evil with evil. In their view, it seems like being enslaved.
the generosity of your words is often just a political gesture to win people's hearts.
16 This generosity, which people regard as a virtue, is motivated by vanity, dullness and fear, and more often it is a combination of the three.
17 The temperance of lucky people comes from the peace of mind that good luck gives them.
18 Temperance is nothing more than fear of being envied and criticized by people, because such envy and criticism will come to those who are intoxicated with their luck. Temperance is also a meaningless display of our spiritual strength. In the final analysis, temperance stems from the desire of those who are lucky-they want to make themselves appear greater than their own luck.
19 each of us has enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.
2 The perseverance of sages only comes from the art of forbidding their inner turmoil.
21 People who are condemned and tortured sometimes pretend a firm attitude to despise death (this kind of contempt is actually just afraid to face death directly), which enables people to say that this firmness and contempt belong to their spirit, just like saying that the blindfold belongs to their eyes.
22 Philosophy can easily overcome the past and coming pains, but the present pains should overcome philosophy.
23 Few people know about death. People usually endure it not by determination, but by stupidity and habit. Most people die, just seeing it as a fact that they have to accept.
24 It was not until those great men were knocked down by long-term bad luck that they realized that they had been supported by their own ambitions, not by their own souls, and that there was a huge emptiness around them. What those heroes did was no different from other people's behavior.
25 to bear good luck, you must have the virtue of more evils.
26 the immortal sun can't make people see for a long time.
27 We are often proud of our passion, even the most sinful passion, but jealousy is a shameful and disgraceful passion, a passion that people deny they have.
28 Suspicion is fair and reasonable in some respects, since it only tends to make people save their own interests or think they belong to themselves. However, jealousy is an anger that can't stand the luck of others.
29 The evil we do does not bring us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities do.
3 Our strength actually exceeds our will, but we often defend ourselves that some things are impossible.
31 if we have no shortcomings ourselves, we won't get so much happiness by paying attention to the shortcomings of others.
32 Suspicion grows in doubt. When people go from doubt to certainty, it turns into anger or disappears immediately.
33 Pride can always find reasons for pride, even when it gives up vanity.
34 if we have no pride in ourselves, we won't complain about the pride of others.
35 Everyone is the same pride, but the ways and means of expression are different.
36 Just as nature wisely arranges various organs of our bodies to make us happy, it also gives us pride to avoid the pain of knowing that we are imperfect.
37 When we persuade misbehaving people, it is more effective to appeal to their pride than to appeal to their kindness. Instead of correcting them, we should convince them that others are exempt from these shortcomings.
38 We make promises according to our hopes; We keep our promise according to our fears.
39 interest speaks in all kinds of languages; Play with all kinds of people, even the selfless.
4 interests make some people blind and others see.
41 Those who focus too much on small things usually become incompetent for big things.
42 We don't have enough strength to completely follow our reason.
43 when a person is guided by others, he often thinks that he is guiding himself, but when he is moving towards a goal by his own spirit, his mind unconsciously takes away other hearts.
44 the strength or weakness of the spirit is actually only the condition of good or bad body organs.
45 the capriciousness of our mood is even more bizarre and unreasonable than the capriciousness of luck.
46 Philosophers' attachment or indifference to life is only their different tastes of self-love, so we don't need to argue about the choice of taste or color between tongues.
47 everything that comes to us is determined by our mood.
48 Happiness lies in interest, not in things. Our happiness lies in having what we love, not in having what others find lovely.
49 We are neither as happy as we think, nor as unfortunate as we think.
5 Some people who think highly of themselves make misfortune an honor. They want to convince others and themselves that only they are worthy of the torment of fate.
51 what we agree with at one time, we oppose it at another time-witnessing this situation can weaken our complacency.
52 No matter how different people's fates seem, there is still some compensation to make good luck and bad luck equal to each other.
53 Only some great advantages of talent can't make a hero, but luck should accompany it.
54 philosophers despise wealth, but they just want to hide their revenge on the unfair reward of fate by despising what fate has not given them. This kind of contempt is also a secret to ensure that they will not degenerate in poverty, and it is a change of course to gain respect-this respect is impossible for them to rely on wealth.
55 Disliking kindness is just another way of loving kindness. We show contempt for those who have benefited, so as to comfort and alleviate the distress of those who have not received the benefits. Since we can't take away what attracts those people, we refuse to give them respect.
56 In order to succeed in society, people try their best to look like they have succeeded in society.
57 no matter how people boast about their great actions, they are often just the product of opportunities, not the result of a great intention.
58 Our actions are full of luck or misfortune, and a lot of people's praise and criticism of these actions come from these luck or misfortune.
59 There is no unfortunate event from which a shrewd person can't draw some benefits, and there is no lucky event from which a dull person can't make it harmful to himself.
6 Fate will push everything in its favor.
61 People's happiness or misfortune depends on their emotions as much as luck depends on their emotions.
62 Sincerity is an open mind. We seldom find people who are very sincere, and what we usually see as sincerity is just a clever cover-up to win the trust of others.
63 Hating lying often stems from an imperceptible ambition to provide strong evidence for our words and attract people to talk about it with reverence.
64 Truth does not cause as many good things in the world as false truth does.
65 people praise "wisdom" without stint, and it can't guarantee us in the smallest things.
66 A smart person must arrange his interests in order. When we are in a hurry to do many things at the same time, our greed often disrupts this order. As a result, we miss the most important things because we desire too many unimportant things.
67 elegance is to the body what conscience is to the spirit.
68 It is difficult to define love. We can only say that in the soul, love is a dominant passion; In spirit, it is a mutual understanding; Physically, it's just a secret envy and elegant possession of what we love hiding behind many mysteries.
69 if there is a pure love that is not mixed with our other passions, it is this kind of love: it is hidden in the depths of our hearts, and even we ourselves are unaware of it.
7 Love can't be hidden or pretended for a long time.
71 When people no longer love each other, almost everyone will be ashamed of the love they once had.
72 When we judge love according to its main effect, it is more like hate than love.
73 We can find some women who have never had an affair, but it is difficult to find women who have only had an affair once.
74 There is only one kind of love, but there are thousands and thousands of copies of it.
75 Love, like a flame, cannot continue to exist without constant movement. Once it stops hope and fear, its life will stop.
76 Indeed, love is like an elf: the whole world is talking about it, but no one has seen it.
77 Love lends its name to countless contacts that we think belong to it. However, it knows no more about these contacts than the Governor knows about what happened in Venice.
78 To love justice is nothing more than fear of injustice to most people.
79 Silence is the surest choice for people who lack self-confidence.
8 We make so many friends because it is difficult for us to know the nature of the soul and easy to see the advantages of intelligence.
81 Compared with ourselves, we don't really love anyone. When we love our friends more than ourselves, we are just following our own tastes and preferences. However, it is only by this kind of friendship that the only lover is better than love that friendship can be true and complete.
82 reconciliation with the enemy is only out of a desire to improve one's situation, or out of boredom with the struggle, or out of fear of a bad ending.
83 what people call "friendship" is actually just a social communication relationship, a respect for each other's interests and mutual help. In the final analysis, it is just a transaction, and self-love is always there to make something.
84 it is more shameful to distrust your friends than to be cheated by them.
85 We often think that we love some people more than ourselves. However, what makes our friendship is only benefits. We give our benefits to others, not because we want to do good to them, but because we can get something in return.
86 Our vigilance proves the deception of others.
87 If people don't cheat each other, people can't live in society for a long time.
88 We increase or decrease their advantages in our minds according to our satisfaction with our friends, and we judge their value according to the way they live with us, not themselves.
89 Everyone complains about his memory, but no one complains about his judgment.
no one is satisfied with his own property, but with his own cleverness. -Tolstoy
9 In life communication, we are more often pleasing because of our shortcomings than because of our strengths.
91 Even the greatest ambition will be regarded as the smallest ambition when it encounters absolutely insurmountable obstacles on its way to the desired goal.
92 There was a madman among the Athenians, who thought that all the big ships that came to Hong Kong belonged to him. To make a man wake up from his arrogance, he needs to be treated as badly as the Athenians did to that madman.
93 Old people like to give people good instruction, because they feel relieved that they can no longer set a bad example.
94 Great titles have not improved, but have reduced those who don't know how to stand on their own feet.
95 The sign of a very outstanding achievement is that those who are most jealous of it have to praise it.
96 such a person is ungrateful: his ungrateful mistakes are not as many as those who benefit him.
97 When we think that reason and insight are two different things, we are mistaken. Insight is just the brilliant light of reason, which penetrates into the depths of things, where it pays attention to everything worthy of attention and grasps things that seem incomprehensible. Similarly, we should also admit that all the effects that we attribute to insight also belong to the light of reason.
98 Everyone says that his mind is good, but no one dares to say so about his spirit.
99 The elegance of spirit lies in thinking about those kind and beautiful things.
1 Spiritual refinement means talking about things that people like in a pleasant way.
11 this is often the case.