120 philosophical essays you must read in your life

Chapter 3

Chapter 1 Section 2 Protagonist

[Chinese] Sanmao
In my life, I am the protagonist.

For other people's lives, we are at best a hint, a kind of encouragement and inspiration, and sincere love.These attitudes may thus enrich the lives of others, but this has no possibility of developing into - representing the lives of others.

We can't afford to live entirely for another life - even if others give it that right.

It is a kind of courage to insist on what you should do.It is another kind of courage to never do what your conscience does not allow.

Don't be afraid to say no to others if your reasons are valid.

When a person opens his mouth to make a request, he has basically prepared two answers in his heart.Therefore, giving him any one of the answers is expected.

Forgiving others for their mistakes is not necessarily a virtue.Ignoring one's mistakes is the most irresponsible release.

Excessive self-interest is for selfish self-interest.

Completely abandoning me is also abusing a living being—myself.

【Together with you】

Everyone is his only master.We have the power to decide our own lives, and we also have the autonomy to decide which things should be faced bravely and which things should not be done.In the tide of life, we don't need to care about other people's eyes, but pay the price of freedom, happiness and drifting with the tide.Of course, the desire for freedom is not necessarily selfish and self-reliant.What we advocate is how to learn how to maintain independent self-taste and personality integrity in the tide of material desires; how to stick to the principle of standing in the world and the most basic rights of being a human being in the torrent of society that follows what others say.If adults do not realize the dangers of lying to their children, how can they teach their children to be honest in the future?

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