Since I can't find a friend who is fully devoted to me, I must have some friends who can use their driving force to overcome my laziness.
We should avoid the conflict between obligations and interests and expect our own happiness from other people's disasters.
Everyone has happiness and pain, but the degree is different. He who suffers the least is the happiest; He who feels the least happy is the most pitiful.
Economy and diligence are two famous doctors of human beings.
6. In loneliness and boredom, one can feel the benefits of living with people who care about ideas.
7. Decoration is incompatible with virtue, because virtue is the strength and vitality of the soul.
8. The money in our hands is a tool to keep our freedom.
9. It is not difficult for a well-meaning person to express his courtesy to others.
10, youth is the time to learn wisdom, and middle age is the time to put it into practice.
1 1, the value of life is up to you.
12, the secret of success is never to change the set purpose.
13. When a person does a good job wholeheartedly, he will succeed in the end.
14, poverty is undoubtedly a good teacher; But the tuition fee charged by this teacher is very high, and what students get from him is often not worth the tuition fee.
15, an ignorant person always thinks that what he knows is very important and should tell everyone. But an educated person will not easily show off the knowledge in his stomach. He can say a lot, but he thinks there are still many things he can't say well.
16, people say that life is short, and I think they make life so short. Because they are not good at using life, they in turn complain that time passes too fast; But I think, as far as their lives are concerned, time passes too slowly.
17, the inevitable consequence of luxury, the disintegration of weathering, in turn caused the corruption of interests.
18. I regret falling asleep when I am lucky, but I feel more strongly when I am in adversity.
19, weakness, it will never cultivate a vibrant soul and wisdom.
20. Among us, who can tolerate the happiness and troubles in life best, I think, is the one who has received the best education.
2 1, the fun of family life is the best antidote to the poison of bad atmosphere.
22. The combination of sincere love is the purest of all combinations.
I have always believed that only by putting good into action can it be called beauty.
24. Taking away the love of beauty from our hearts also takes away all the charm of life.
25. Ordinary and abstract thoughts are the root of human mistakes.
26. Youth is a period of increasing intelligence, and old age is a period of using intelligence.
As long as a teacher lies to his students once, all his educational achievements may be destroyed.
28. Teachers often pretend to be teachers' dignity there in an attempt to make students regard him as a perfect person. This practice is counterproductive. Why don't they understand that it is precisely because they want to establish their own prestige that they have ruined it.
29. Before you dare to undertake the task of cultivating a person, you must become a person, and you must become an admirable example.
30. The most important thing in one's life is labor training. Without labor, there can be no normal life.
Rousseau's celebrity story
Punishment of conscience
In the Confessions of Rousseau, a famous French thinker and writer, it is recorded that Rousseau's family was poor when he was a child and he had to work as a servant in an earl's house to make a living. A maid in the count's house has a beautiful little ribbon, which is very cute. One day, while no one was around, Rousseau took a small ribbon from the maid's bed and ran to the yard to enjoy it.
Just then, a servant walked behind him, found Rousseau's little ribbon, and immediately reported it to the count. The count was furious, called Rousseau to his side and asked sharply.
Rousseau was very nervous. He thought that if he admitted that he had taken the ribbon himself, he would be fired.
It will be even harder to find a job in the future. He stammered for a long time, and finally told a lie that the ribbon was stolen by the little chef Mary Yong. The count asked Mary to confront him forever with a grain of salt. Hearing this, the kind and honest little Mary Yong suddenly lost her mind and cried and said, "Not me, definitely not me!" " But what about Rousseau? But he bit Marion intensely and made up the so-called "story" of the incident with his nose and eyes.
Now, even more annoyed, the count simply fired Lu Leng and Marion at the same time. When they left the count's house, an elder said meaningfully, "One of you must be innocent, and liars will be punished by conscience!" " "
Sure enough, this incident brought Rousseau lifelong pain. Forty years later, he confessed in his autobiography Confessions: "This burden has been on my conscience ... which made me determined to write this confession." "This cruel memory often bothers me. When I was so sad that I couldn't sleep, I saw this poor girl come to condemn my crime ... "
A tolerant story
On the day of a 22-year-old boy's engagement, his girlfriend took another boy's hand and said to him, "I'm sorry, I don't think we will be happy together." Immersed in happiness, he was stupefied, and he really wanted to find a gap in the eyes of relatives and friends.
The whole town knew about him, and the young man decided to escape from this small town that made him feel humiliated. He vowed to return to his hometown in the future and find back his lost dignity.
Sure enough, 30 years later, he has become a great writer and thinker. His works Confessions, Social Contract Theory and Emile have aroused great repercussions in Europe, and his name Rousseau is a household name in Europe. The day after returning to his hometown, an old friend asked him, "Do you remember Ariel?" Rousseau smiled and said, "Of course, she almost became my bride." "At the beginning, she brought you great shame, and no good end. Over the years, she has been living in poverty and struggling under the relief of relatives. God punished her for betraying you. " The friend said to Rousseau. My friend thought Rousseau would be happy to hear that the person who betrayed him had come to a tragic end, but Rousseau said to him, "I am very sad. God should not punish her." I have some money here. Please give it to her. Don't tell her it's from me, lest she think I'm humiliating her and refuse. "
"Do you really have no resentment against Ai Lier? She humiliated you at the beginning. " The friend asked in a questioning tone.
"If there is resentment, it was 30 years ago. If I have been holding a grudge against her all these years, I haven't lived with it for 30 years. What's in it for me? Just like I came to you with a bag of dead mice, isn't it me who stinks all the way? "
Reading Notes of Rousseau's Confessions
Today, Rousseau's Confessions is still shocking. When all kinds of accusations and insults rained down on them, how many people dared to admit that they had the habit of stealing in their biographies: "Until now, I sometimes stole some gadgets I love." How many people dare to disclose that they have lied and framed a good servant girl when they have become a well-known scholar in the country? How many men are willing to confess the most embarrassing thing-bad habits make the world laugh? Who wants to analyze their private lives-their relationship with women and their emotional relationship? For a thinker who is famous all over France, how terrible would the consequences be if he took the initiative to expose his meanness? There are only two kinds of people-fools and lunatics-who rush into the respectable crowd naked and accept their ridicule and abuse. Rousseau was in a difficult situation when he wrote Confessions. Analyst Hugh Mo said: "He seems to be a person who not only took off his clothes, but also peeled off his skin. In this case, he was driven out to fight against the violent storm. "
Before Rousseau's Confessions, there was an influential Confessions written by the famous godfather saint augustinus, whose frankness was far less than one tenth of Rousseau's. More importantly, the godfather's frankness is to prove that people are primitive and sinful, that people themselves are not worthy of love, and that only "God" is the only object of "enjoyment".
Rousseau's Confessions published another thought completely opposite to Augustine's: human nature is beautiful, and all natural requirements of human beings, such as the yearning for freedom, the pursuit of the opposite sex, and the love of exquisite articles, are normal and reasonable. It is the dirty social environment that "infected me with some bad habits I hate, such as lying, laziness, stealing, etc." When we face this undisguised mind, the first thing we see is how Rousseau grabbed a book with his father when he was a child, and even stayed up all night until he heard the swallows whispering. Isn't this thirst for knowledge the beauty of human beings? When he refused to admit that he stole the ribbon to save face and framed it as the maid Mary Yong, he was tortured by his sins for 40 years until he revealed it to the world and got some conscience comfort. Isn't this spirit of repenting for mistakes the pure feeling of human beings pursuing goodness? He was also captured by desire, but a lofty moral pursuit made him pay more attention to the purity, profundity and permanence of his feelings. In his love life, especially in his seemingly strange relationship with Mrs. Warren, he has an almost innocent, pure and transparent, rich and warm feeling. This kind of respect, protection, gentleness and consideration for women, like a fresh spring breeze, is very rare in the upper class full of bad habits in the18th century. This poet, who was moved to tears by humming a song with a trembling voice until his later years, always maintained a profound love for all mankind. Confessions is a panoramic display of the inner world of ordinary people. There are all kinds of social stains on this mirror of mind, which also shows the purity of this mirror itself.
This courage to show yourself comes from self-esteem for people. He firmly believes that human nature is good. Every individual should not be a slave on the altar of God, but a noble creature with its own value. What a man should worship is not some traditional ideas and moral laws, but himself. Rousseau was the first person in the history of human culture to raise personal dignity and value to such a high level, and announced the birth of a new concept of life and literature. This new concept, which is completely opposite to that of Saint Augustine, can be summed up in the words of German K·P· Moritt (1757- 1793): "Man should re-recognize that he exists for himself, and he should realize that for all people who can think, the whole exists for each individual, just as each individual exists for the whole. An individual should never be regarded as just a useful creature, but as a noble creature with its special value. The human spirit is a self-sufficient whole. "
As we all know, Rousseau's external motivation for writing Confessions is to respond to insults and attacks from churches, officials and enlightenment scholars (Voltaire and Diderot). Defending himself in such a shocking way makes Rousseau's personality not be degraded but become a great personality model beyond Voltaire and others. Is this unexpected result just because of amazing honesty? Don't! The soul-stirring power of this book is that when people read it, they will be pleasantly surprised to find that the most precious thing for people is themselves.