Romain Rolland (1866-1944), French thinker, litterateur, critical realist writer, music critic and social activist. He is the author of "Biography of Famous People" ("Biography of Beethoven" (1902), "Biography of Michelangelo" (1906) and "Biography of Tolstoy" (1911))

The characteristics of the novel are often cited by people Summed up as "writing novels with music"

The founder of biographical literature

1. The instinct of youth power is to oppose other youth forces or to selectively combine with them. Because all kinds of ideas are attractive. They first hesitantly explore and try to wander between two or three goals, then make a decision and choose friends from each other. Category: Youth/Thoughts

2. To despise oneself, betray oneself, and deny one's beliefs by dying is the greatest punishment and the greatest sin in the world. I would rather suffer all the pain and disaster in the world than come to this point. Category: Faith

3. Wisdom and friendship are the only lights that illuminate our dark night. Category: Friendship

4. No one ever reads for the sake of reading. They can only read themselves in books, discover themselves in books, or check themselves. Category: Reading

5. A person’s absolute freedom is madness, and a country’s absolute freedom is chaos. Category: Freedom/Country

6. Life is an endless and ruthless battle. Anyone who wants to be a human being must fight against invisible enemies all the time. The fatal forces in instinct, the desires that confuse people's minds, the ambiguous thoughts, the thoughts that corrupt you and cause you to self-destruct are all stubborn enemies of this type. Category: Life

7. Life is an endless, restless, and ruthless battle. Anyone who wants to be called a human must always fight against invisible enemies. Category: Life

8. We only revere the truth, the truth that is free, unlimited, and without national boundaries, and that has no racial discrimination or prejudice. Category: Freedom

9. All the joy in life is the joy of creation: the genius of love is all driven by the fire of creation. Category: Life

10. Life is hard. For those who are unwilling to settle for mediocrity, it is a day and night struggle. It is often miserable, without brilliance, without happiness, and is fought in loneliness and silence. ...They can only rely on themselves, but sometimes even the strongest people are not immune to waste in suffering. Category: Life

11. Those of you who are born today, you young people, it is your turn now! Step on our bodies and move forward. May you be greater and happier than we are. Category: Youth

12. I have all the conditions to be happy, and no matter how distressed my spirit is, I think I should always be happy, as long as I can always convey the joy in my heart to others. . Category: Youth

13. There is only one truth in the world: be loyal to life and love life. Category: Science

14. A gentle attitude is indeed a great comfort to a despised heart. Category: Friendship

15. The men we call heroes are not those who conquer by thought or strength. The heroes I call are only those who have high moral character. Category: Thought

16. A person’s character determines his fate. If you like to maintain your character, then you have no right to refuse your opportunities. Category: Life

17. Once selfish happiness becomes the only goal in life, life will become goalless.

Category: Ideal

18. The age of this girl is exactly the age when a person anesthetizes himself with pleasant and proud dreams. She is always thinking about love, with that kind of strong interest and curiosity, If it weren't for her ignorance, she would hardly be called innocent. Category: Love

19. Before you can defeat external enemies, you must first defeat your own internal enemies; you don’t have to be afraid of sinking and falling, as long as you continue to extricate yourself and renew yourself. Category: Life

20. Even if you know half of the truth through your own efforts, it is much better than knowing the whole truth based on what others say. Category: Truth

22. Instead of spending a lot of time and energy digging many shallow wells, it is better to spend the same time and energy digging one deep well. Category: Time

23. The most sensitive barometer of the times is young people. Category: Youth

24. I obey reason, and if necessary, I can sacrifice my friendship, my hatred, and my life for it. Category: Friendship

25. Life is hard. For those who are unwilling to settle for mediocrity, it is a day and night struggle. It is often miserable, without brilliance, without happiness, and is fought in loneliness and silence. ...They can only rely on themselves, but sometimes even the strongest people are not immune to waste in suffering. Category: Ideal

26 Life is a bow, and the bowstring is a dream Category: Life

27. Even if you know half of the truth through your own efforts, it is better than knowing the whole truth based on what others say. Category: Truth

28. We only revere the truth, the truth that is free, unlimited, and without national boundaries, and that has no racial discrimination or prejudice. Category: Truth

29. I was born to fight. Category: Life

30. Life does not issue round-trip tickets. Once you leave, you will never come back. Category: Ideal

31. He who kills his thoughts is the biggest murderer. Category: Thoughts

32. Life does not issue round-trip tickets. Once you set out, you will never come back. Category: Life

33. There are some countries in the world that are more important, and that is human conscience. Category: Country

34. Life is a gamble. Regardless of whether I gain or lose money in life, as long as there is still one pound of meat left to gamble on, I will gamble on it. Category: Life

35. For a noble goal, I am willing to pay any price. Category: Life

36. All the morals people preach, family morality, social morality, are beautiful only if they lose their egoism, and only for the sake of overly humane loved ones - good children or good spouses ——It is beautiful when you sacrifice your own sacred thoughts! Category: Thoughts

37 A coward will send his friends to the executioner. Category: Friendship

38. Whoever can see through the life of a child can see the world buried in the shadows, the nebula being organized, and the universe brewing. Children's life is infinite, it is everything... Category: Children

39. Those of you who are born today, you young people, now it is your turn! Step on our bodies and move forward. May you be greater and happier than we are. Category: Youth

40. There is only one truth in the world, which is to be loyal to life and love it. Category: Truth

41. What a pity a person is so addicted to happiness! After selfish happiness becomes the only goal in life, life soon becomes goalless. Category: Life

42. The heaviest burden in life is not work, but boredom. Category: Work

43. All the joy in life is the joy of creation: the genius action of love is all driven by the fire of creation.

Category: Genius

44. A friend after marriage is no longer the friend he once was. The souls of men are now mingled with the souls of some women. Category: Friendship

45. Even if you know half of the truth through your own efforts, it is much better than knowing the whole truth based on what others say. Category: Truth

46. Life is a vineyard that we use together, cultivate together, and harvest together. Category: Ideal

47. It is clear that the future does not belong to those who are hesitant, but to those who, once decided, will not give up until they achieve their goals. Category: Diligence

48. Those of you who are born today, you young people, now it is your turn! Step on our bodies and move forward. May you be greater and happier than we are. Category: Youth/Morality

49. Anyone who does not have a sincere and enthusiastic respect for the truth will never have a conscience, a noble life, or nobility. Category: Truth

50. Wisdom and friendship are the only lights that illuminate our dark night. Category: Wisdom

51. A rich nature will wither if it does not feed hungry others. Category: Dedication

52. Believe in yourself first, and then others will believe in you. Category: Talent

53. Doubt and faith, both are necessary. Doubt can destroy yesterday's faith and open the way for tomorrow's faith. Category: Faith

Friends see friends transparently, and they exchange lives with each other. Category: Friendship

54. Life is like a seed, hidden in the depths of life, in the mixture of black soil and human clay, where generations have left their remains. The task of a great life is to separate life from soil. Such procreation takes a lifetime. Category: Life

55. Life is an endless, restless, and ruthless battle. Anyone who wants to be called a human must fight against invisible enemies all the time. The fatal forces in instinct, the desires that confuse people's minds, the ambiguous thoughts, the thoughts that corrupt you and cause you to self-destruct are all stubborn enemies of this type. Category: Life

56. Happiness is a fragrance of the soul and the harmony of a singing heart. And the most beautiful music of the soul is compassion. Category: Youth

57. When a person is young, he needs to have an illusion and feel that he is participating in the great activities of the world, where he is revolutionizing the world. His senses will vibrate with all the breath of the universe, and he feels so Free, so easy. He is not burdened with a family, has nothing, and has nothing to fear. Because I have nothing, I can generously give up everything. Category: Freedom

58. Wisdom and friendship are the only lights that illuminate our dark night. Category: Friendship

59. Anyone who has met a friendly person once in the world and experienced the state of sincerity has tasted the joy of heaven and earth. Category: Friendship

60. Even if we are motionless, time is moving for us. And the passing of days is to take away the illusions we hope to keep. Category: Time

61. If you want to monopolize the truth, the truth will laugh at you. Category: Truth

62. Life is a never-ending factory, and there is no place for lazy people. Get to work! Create it! Category: Life

63. Only with friends can life show its full value. Category: Friendship

64. Without great character, there would be no great people, not even great artists or great actors. Category: Morality

65. For a noble goal, I am willing to pay any price.

Category: Ideal

66. It is one thing to talk about theory calmly, and it is another thing to put your thoughts into practice-especially when you need to make a prompt decision. Category: Thought

67. An ideal is a force! Category: Ideal

68. All the morals people promote, family morality, social morality, are beautiful only if they lose their egoism, and only for the sake of overly humane loved ones - good children or good spouses ——It is beautiful when you sacrifice your own sacred thoughts! Category: Cultivation

69. A serious attitude towards peer-to-peer work and a high degree of integrity form a balance between freedom and order Category: Work

70. What is life? It is not what cold reason and our naked eyes see, but what we imagine it to be. The rhythm of life is love. Category: Life

71. Once selfish happiness becomes the only goal in life, life will become goalless. Category: Life

72. I don’t call people who surpass others with their thoughts and strength, I call them heroes only those who make themselves greater with their hearts. Category: Thoughts

73. Only with the balanced rhythm of light and darkness, and with the rhythm of children's lives, can the endless, unpredictable and profound years appear. Category: Children

74. A serious attitude towards peer work and a high degree of integrity form a balance between freedom and order Category: Freedom

75. What a person needs when he is young He had an illusion that he was participating in the great activities of the human world, where he was revolutionizing the world. His senses would vibrate with all the breath of the universe, and he felt so free and relaxed. He is not burdened with a family, has nothing, and has nothing to fear. Because I have nothing, I can generously give up everything. Category: Friendship

76. People cannot define a time category for passion: time

77. All morals, family morality, and social morality that people promote can only be achieved if they lose their egoism. It is beautiful only when one sacrifices one's sacred thoughts for the sake of an overly humane loved one - a good son or daughter or a good spouse! Category: Morality

78. The whole life is a matter of days. Only the damn dreamer would put himself in the ethereal world instead of seizing the fleeting time before his eyes. Category: Time

79. Without great character, there would be no great people, not even great artists or great actors. Category: Cultivation

80. People often feel that the preparation stage is a waste of time. Only when a real opportunity comes and they are unable to grasp it, can they realize that their lack of preparation is a waste of time. . Category: Time

81. Faith is not a science. Faith is an act that only has meaning when it is practiced. Category: Faith

82. It is immoral to live a mediocre and contented life. And the man who voluntarily withdraws from a fight is a coward. Category: Morality

83. I obey reason, and if necessary, I can sacrifice my friendship, my hatred, and my life for it. Category: Truth

84. Some people find it a joy to be able to sacrifice their lives and to use sacrifice to express deep and selfless sympathy for mankind. Category: Dedication

85. Only with the balanced rhythm of light and darkness, and the rhythm of children's lives, can the endless, unpredictable and profound years appear. Category: Children

86. The men we call heroes are not those who conquer by thought or strength. The heroes I call are only those who have high moral character. Category: Morality

87. With friends, life can show its full value.

Category: Friendship

88. All the joy in life is the joy of creation: the genius action of love is all driven by the fire of creation. Category: Love

89. All the morals people preach, family morality, social morality, are beautiful only if they lose egoism, and only for the sake of an overly humane loved one - a good son or daughter or a good spouse. ——It is beautiful when you sacrifice your own sacred thoughts! Category: Society

90. If a person wants to help the weak, he should become a strong person himself, instead of becoming a weak person like them. For those who have done bad things, be lenient, if you will. Never relax about the bad things they will do. Category: Cultivation

91. We only revere the truth, the truth that is free, unlimited, and without national boundaries, and that has no racial discrimination or prejudice. Category: Science

92. Life is a never-ending factory, and there is no place for lazy people. Get to work! Create it! Category: Ideal

93. Whoever has the will to make progress can achieve it. Category: Ambition

94. The numerous traumas are the best thing life can give you, because every trauma marks a step forward. Category: Life

95. True happiness is: becoming completely objective and thus reflecting one's ambitions. Category: Youth

96. Life is a vineyard shared by everyone, cultivated together, and harvested together. Category: Life

97. This world is not perfect. Those who love are usually not loved, those who are loved usually do not love others, and those who love each other will be separated sooner or later. Category: Love

98 Most people die at the age of twenty or thirty: after this age they become only a shadow of themselves; the rest of their lives are but imitations of themselves, and a reflection of the truly human times of the past. What I do, think, and like are repeated day by day, and the way of repetition becomes more and more mechanical and out of touch. ——"John Christopher"

99. Everyone studies themselves from books, either to discover themselves or to control themselves. Category: Life

100. See the world clearly and then love it. Category; Life

The pendulum of life always swings between two poles, and happiness is also one of the poles. To stop the pendulum at one of its poles, the only way is to break the pendulum.

My understanding, because I can’t find it, is that happiness is one of the first levels. So if you break the other pole, do you have to give up something to be happy, or do you have to give up to get pure happiness?

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