What is the use of being so handsome? Can you really swipe your face to pay for things?
A confused person, once in power, can easily make a large group of people equally confused. Conversely, a smart person, without power, cannot make a crowd of confused people become wise. A powerful person, if constantly flattered, may become weak. On the other hand, a weak person, if given necessary encouragement, can become strong.
In reality, peace is true happiness. Those who truly live amidst noise and chaos may better appreciate the preciousness of tranquility. Compared to a peaceful life, chasing fame and fortune is truly a miserable task. A peaceful life is one that, amidst the journey of life and beneath the turbulent waves, remains undisturbed by storms, maintaining eternal serenity.
Often, it is because we have ideals and goals in our hearts that we have a direction to move forward. Ideals and goals are like a flag fluttering in the wind; their existence helps us find our own value.
The division of labor, which brings about many of the benefits mentioned above, is not the result of human wisdom, although human wisdom has foreseen that the division of labor would produce general prosperity and has sought to utilize it to achieve that end. It is the result of a human tendency, not aimed at this great utility, that has gradually and slowly brought it about. This tendency is the desire for mutual exchange, barter, and trade.
Taste the stories of autumn, do you understand? It is intoxicating passion, it is holy romance. Embrace the earth filled with desire, and all forgotten entanglements will give birth to new love at the feet of autumn. Kiss the scenery of autumn, the earth's charming cheeks are beautiful, very tender.
Even gods and buddhas, it is feared, cannot avoid their own sufferings. Their smiles may perhaps just be deliberately put on for the world to see.
