greatest wisdom book

Chapter 33 Open up your life and be the best social king 1
Interacting with others will continuously enrich our experience and improve our ability to live.Not only that, but gathering the right people around us can, in many cases, help us achieve great things.

a friend is your other life

A friend is your other life.When you are with them, everything goes well.Earn a friend every day, if not a confidant to whom you pour out your heart, at least a supporter.Choose your friends carefully, some of them will be the ones you can trust for the rest of your life.

Friendship is the most virtuous mother of generosity and honor, the sister of gratitude and kindness, and the sworn enemy of hatred and avarice, which is ever ready to sacrifice itself.

The importance of friendship cannot be doubted.First of all, a sincere friend will surely be your backing in life, share happiness with you when you are happy, share pain with you when you are sad, bless you sincerely when you are proud, and lend a helping hand when you are frustrated.Someone lamented: It is enough to have a confidant in life! Physicist Einstein said: "The most beautiful thing in the world is to have a few friends who are upright and serious in both mind and heart." The preciousness of friendship makes many The wise men were moved by it.

Goethe and Schiller are two superstars in the history of German literature, and they are also a pair of good teachers and helpful friends.Although Goethe and Schiller are ten years apart in age, and their backgrounds and circumstances are completely different, their common ambition makes their friendship last forever.After they got acquainted, they co-published the literary journal "Hollen" and the satirical poetry anthology "Xenian".Schiller kept encouraging Goethe's enthusiasm for writing, and Goethe said to him affectionately: "You have revived me as a poet."

Encouraged by Schiller, Goethe wrote a long narrative poem "Hermann and Doludia" in one go, and completed the first part of the famous work "Faust".At this time, Schiller also completed his last masterpiece "William Tell".When Schiller died, Goethe said: "Now I have lost my friends, and I have lost half of my existence." 27 years later, Goethe passed away, and his body was buried with Schiller.

In memory of Goethe and Schiller and their friendship, a bronze statue of the two great men was erected side by side.This bronze statue bears witness to their friendship and also tells people that when people depend on each other and help each other, the power they possess will break through the boundaries of time and space.

In the face of friendship, many things will pale in color. People who have friendship can get happiness no matter how hard life is.

A long time ago, in the wind and rain of wandering in a foreign land, two poor people with the same experience met.They get along day and night, like brothers and sisters, supporting each other.One day, for their respective dreams, they had to part ways.

A poor man said to another poor man: "If I have money now, I would most like to buy you a gift as a souvenir." Another poor man also said with infinite emotion: "Or we have a personal item to exchange with each other. Then, we can feel each other’s presence all the time.”

But they have nothing.However, on that autumnal afternoon, they finally exchanged a gift, and each went on the road without any regrets. They exchanged each other's names.

The touching thing about true friendship is not how many interests are mixed in it, but that the sincerity and sincerity it reveals will appease people's restless hearts and purify people's souls.As the so-called friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, people who bathe in the friendship of gentlemen can break through hypocrisy and indulgence, and become more rational and deep.

Music master Schubert was very poor when he was young, but poverty did not reduce his enthusiasm for music in the slightest.In order to listen to Beethoven's symphony, he even sold his only coat, which moved all his friends.

One day, the oil painter Mahler went to see him and saw that he was worried about not being able to afford the music scores for his composition, so he sat down quietly, took out the drawing paper he had just bought from his bag, and drew the music scores for him for the day Wire.

When Mahler became a famous painter, his disciples asked him: "Which of your paintings are you most satisfied with in your life?" Mahler replied without thinking: "The score line drawn for Schubert."

True friendship does not depend on career, misfortune and identity, experience, status and situation. It rejects utilitarianism, belonging and contract in nature. It is the mutual echo and confirmation of independent personalities.The so-called friends are people who make each other live warmer, more confident and more comfortable.Without friends, you can only live with loneliness, loneliness and failure, and I believe everyone doesn't want to do that.

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