Meaning: Anything that has happened is a thing of the past. Philosophy is to stop thinking about the past, whether it is good or bad, but to face the future calmly.

Original: Everything in the past is a preface. Love everyone, trust a few, and live up to no one. I wasted time, and time wasted me.

In the gloomy days, don't let the cold fate secretly rejoice; Since fate has insulted us, we should take revenge with equanimity. Wise people will never sit down and wail for failure, they must look for ways to save it optimistically.

source: from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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The Tempest is a legendary drama written by British playwright william shakespeare in his later period. It was written in about 1611, premiered at the end of 1611 and first published in 1623. ?

The play tells the story that Prospero, the Duke of Milan, was usurped by his younger brother Antonio, and fled to a desert island with his only child Miranda, and became the owner of the island by magic.

Later, he created a storm, took ships passing by the nearby King of Naples, Prince Ferdinand and Antonio and others to a desert island, and used magic to promote the marriage between the prince and Miranda. In the end, Prospero regained his title, forgave the enemy and returned home.

Acceptance and reconciliation are the theme of The Tempest. In the play, the loss is made up and the evil is hit. The whole play is full of poetic and peaceful atmosphere, mysterious fantasy, magnificent description, vivid image and poetic background. ?

Like other Shakespeare's later works, the theme is the resurrection and rebirth of human nature, which makes people deeply realize how beautiful it is to get rid of evil, and it is a beautiful thing covered with bad phenomena. It not only shows the contrast between superficial phenomena and the essence of things; It is also a reflection, a reflection on the animal kingdom, human society and spiritual world.

This is the ideological basis of Shakespeare's understanding of people.

William Shakesbeare (1564-1616) was an English Renaissance dramatist and poet.

Shakespeare was born on April 23rd, 1564 in a wealthy citizen's family in Strafford, central England. He studied Latin, literature and rhetoric in his hometown grammar school as a child. Later, his family came down, and he helped his father to do business. He went to London to make a living alone around 1578. It is said that he worked as a groom or servant, which was regarded as the "lowest occupation" at that time.

Later, he became an actor and a screenwriter. With the troupe touring around, he had extensive contact with the life of all walks of life. He played a supporting role in the troupe, such as the ghost in Hamlet, and also served as a director, but he mainly wrote scripts. At first, he just processed the old scripts, and gradually rewritten them from processing or created them himself.

He later became a shareholder of the troupe, returned to his hometown from London around 1613, and died on April 23rd, 1616.

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