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1. Sometimes the desire evoked by a distant place is not a lead to a strange place, but a call to go home. ——Benjamin

2. Honesty is better than all wisdom, and it is the basic condition of wisdom. ——Kant

3. The end always justifies the means. ——Machiavelli

4. No matter how much people boast about their great actions, they are often just the product of opportunity rather than the result of a great intention. ——La Rochefoucauld

5. The vastness of the spirit, the active imagination, and the diligence of the soul are geniuses. —— Diderot

6. Living without a goal 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 to us. ——Helvetius

8. The best effort of friendship is not to show our flaws to a friend, but to make him see his own flaws. ——La Rochefoucauld

9. The high honor a great man enjoys depends entirely on the method he uses to fight for honor. ——La Rochefoucauld

10. Truth is the product of time, not the product of authority. ——Bacon

11. Man is full of achievements, but he still lives on the earth poetically. ——Holderlin

12. Pain is being forced to leave the place where you are. ——Kant

13. To overcome nihilism, people killed God and finally believed in eternal recurrence, thus ending the era of belief! ——Patrick Modiano

14. Growing children are always not very enthusiastic about their parents out of an almost pure selfishness. ——Mark Levi

15. When shortcomings give up on us, we also think that we have abandoned shortcomings. ——La Rochefoucauld

16. People who cannot control themselves cannot be called free people. ——Pythagoras

17. Reason can easily defeat past and future misfortunes, but current misfortune defeats reason. ——La Rochefoucauld

18. The real journey of discovery is not to discover new landscapes, but to have new eyes. ——Proust

19. When we live in this world, there are many things that are kept secret and must be kept silent. ——Patrick Modiano

20. Ordinary people only care about how to kill time, while slightly talented people think about how to use time. ——Schopenhauer

21. It is already autumn, the season of departure. Come on, I need the sun, the sun will heal me. —— Rimbaud

22. Life is a disease, the world is a hospital, and death is our doctor. ——Heine

23. Whatever you suppress, it will become stronger; whatever you resist, it will continue to exist. ——Eckhart Tolle

24. A small spirit is too easily restrained by trivial matters, but a great spirit sees all these trivial matters but is not burdened by them. ——La Rochefoucauld

25. When you can make peace with uncertainty, infinite possibilities unfold in life. ——Eckhart Tolle

26. Reflection is a mirror that can clearly show our mistakes and give us the opportunity to correct them.

——Heine