2. Honesty is better than all ingenuity, and it is the basic condition of ingenuity. -Kant
3. The purpose is always to defend the means. -Machiavelli
4. No matter how people boast about their great actions, they are often just the product of opportunities, not the result of a great intention. -Larochefoucauld
5. Vast spirit, active imagination and diligent mind are genius. -Diderot
6. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -Kant
7. We like the respect of others not because of the respect itself, but because of the benefits that people's respect brings us. -helvetius
8. The greatest effort of friendship is not to show our shortcomings to a friend, but to show him his own. -Larochefoucauld
9. How much honor a great man enjoys depends entirely on the way he strives for honor. -Larochefoucauld
1. Truth is the product of time, not authority. -bacon
11. Man is full of hard work, but he still lives poetically on the earth. -holderling
12. Pain is being forced to leave the place. -Kant
13. In overcoming nihilism, people killed God and finally believed in eternal reincarnation, thus ending the era of faith! -patrick modiano
14. Growing children are always not very enthusiastic about their parents out of an almost pure selfishness. -marc levy
15. When shortcomings give up on us, we still think we have abandoned them. -Larochefoucauld
16. People who cannot restrain themselves cannot be called free people. -Pythagoras
17. Truth can easily overcome past and future misfortunes, but present misfortunes overcome truth. -Larochefoucauld
18. The real journey of discovery is not to discover new landscapes, but to have new eyes. -Proust