I couldn't stand the temptation of Balzac's "Disillusionment" every night before, and I always had to watch it for a while before falling asleep. This work, translated by Fu Lei, tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. The young poet Lucien was a talented man, but he was greedy for pleasure and came to Paris with a head full of fantasies. Because he could not withstand the temptation of the glitzy world, he wanted to take a shortcut and reach the sky in one step. He refused to work hard to study seriously, and he could not be vicious and cunning. As a result, He encountered obstacles at every turn, and finally lost his reputation in the partisan literary struggle. His brother-in-law David was a hard-working inventor. Because he was unable to resist the insidious calculations of his peers, he was forced to give up his invention patent and return to his family life to end his life. Excerpted quotations: Society is a mud pit, we have to stand on the high ground. Society only takes pleasure in clowns and has no other requirements. It forgets them in the blink of an eye. Ethicists can never fully understand the influence of thoughts and feelings on interests. This influence is comparable to the influence of interests on thoughts and feelings. All laws of nature have a double and opposite effect. Theft committed is always followed by murder. If we leave the center where talents gather, we will not be able to breathe the air of active thinking; if we are not exposed to the ever-changing trends, our knowledge will become stale and our interests will deteriorate like stagnant water. Enthusiasm has nowhere to vent, and blindly exaggerating small things will actually reduce the value of enthusiasm. A young man who has never made a mistake does not forgive others for their faults, but at the same time thinks that others also have lofty beliefs. We must have rich life experience before we can understand Raphael's famous saying: The so-called understanding is the equal degree of each other.

When a person goes to bed, he can say to himself: I have not judged other people's works, I have not made anyone believe them, I have not used my intelligence as a knife to mess with the hearts of innocent people, I have not said anything mean to undermine others. My happiness means that I don’t interfere with the happiness of the stupid and chaotic people. I don’t make unreasonable troubles with the really talented people. I don’t bother to use wisecracks to gain easy success. In short, I never go against my beliefs? Isn’t it great to be able to say this to myself? The comfort?