1. The most spiritual person cannot see his own back. ——Africa

2. The most difficult thing is to know yourself. ——Greece

3. Only those who have the courage to bear their fate are heroes. ——Hesse

4. Have sex with a brave person and read without words. ——Zhou Enlai

5. Reading makes people enriched, talking makes people agile, and writing makes people precise. ——Bacon

6. The greatest pride and the greatest inferiority both express the weakness of the soul. —— Spinoza

7. Self-knowledge is the most rare knowledge. ——Spain

8. Courage leads to heaven, cowardice leads to hell. ——Seneca

9. Sometimes reading is a clever way to avoid thinking. ——Helps

10. Reading any good book is like talking to the most outstanding people of the past. ——Descartes

11. The more incompetent one is, the more pretentious he is. ——Deng Tuo

12. The more incompetent a person is, the more he likes to find fault with others. ——Ireland

13. He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise. He who conquers others is powerful, and he who conquers himself is strong. ——Lao Tzu

14. A strong-willed person can put the world in his hands and knead it like a lump of clay. ——Goethe

15. The most challenging challenge is to improve yourself. ——Michael F. Staley

16. Your spare time life should be meaningful and not deviant. ——Washington

17. Even if a person has reached the top, he must still strive for self-improvement. ——Russell Baker

18. The biggest challenge and breakthrough lies in employing people, and the biggest breakthrough in employing people lies in trusting people. ——Jack Ma

19. You live to make others live a better life. ——Lei Feng

20. Master books, don’t be mastered by books; read to live, don’t live to read.

——Bulwer