In this book, Bacon discusses truth, beauty, goodness, knowledge, family and marriage in the form of prose ... "Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people witty, mathematics makes people think deeply, physics makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and logic rhetoric makes people eloquent." "Patience can calm the soul. He who loses patience loses his soul. People must never put their whole lives in the sting of their opponents like bees. " "As far as people are concerned, we should listen carefully to the advice of naive and rash people. As far as the matter is concerned, listen carefully to such radical remarks. " Such easy-to-understand good sentences can be seen everywhere in the book, full of insights and shining with wisdom.
Bacon said in On Knowledge: "Man's sky is like wild flowers and weeds, and knowledge learning is like pruning and transplanting." It can be seen that knowledge can change people's destiny and is very important in our life.
In On Friendship, Bacon said: "If you tell a friend happiness, you will get two happiness;" And if you tell your troubles to a friend, you will be divided into half of them. "This shows that friends are indispensable roles around us.
Of course, other chapters in the book also reflect the other side of Bacon's character-pragmatism and unprincipled opportunism. The way of being a man described in the two chapters of On Ambition and On Avoiding the World is actually a typical bourgeois philosophy. In the titles such as On the Emperor, The Road to a Powerful Country, On the Rebellion, On the Noble, etc., he completely stood on the position of court officials, aiming at introducing the ruling experience and political skills to the king.
Letters from Fu Lei is a book specially for children. Mr. Fu Lei, a literary translator, wrote nearly a hundred letters to his son Fu Cong during his study abroad, teaching him to be independent, patriotic and successful, and to integrate the excellent morality of the Chinese nation into the inculcation of his son. His voice is loud, his meaning is continuous, and his feelings are fists. These letters reflect Mr. Fu Lei's deep love for his motherland and his son. The first thing in the letter is how a young man behaves and how to deal with life problems. He used his own experience to show his point of view and taught his son to be modest, rigorous and polite. Don't be discouraged when you encounter difficulties, and don't be proud of winning the grand prize; We should have the sense of honor and disgrace of the country and the nation, have the dignity of artistic personality and be an artist with both ability and political integrity and excellent personality. At the same time, Mr. Fu Lei also gave useful guidance to his son's life. Like a mentor, he put forward opinions and suggestions on how to combine work and rest, manage money correctly and handle love and marriage correctly in daily life. His love for his son is beyond words.
However, these letters are about views on life and art, and the pursuit of lofty spirit and truth. A father pointed out the direction of life and the spiritual destination for his son with his mental journey for most of his life!
At the same time, Fu Lei is keenly aware of the problems children encounter outside art, such as making friends, feelings, expenses and so on. There is a saying that I always remember, that is, "a naked child doesn't know loneliness." Loneliness will create a world and many caring friends! Always keep a childlike innocence and never fall behind when you are old. I will always be able to embrace the hearts of the whole world! " I think: if a person has it, he will have the whole world!
In the letterhead, he skillfully expounded the cultural philosophy of the nation and corrected the typo for his son more than once, in order to let his son know that he is proud enough as a descendant of the Chinese people, because the motherland has endless cultural wealth, which is passed down from generation to generation in the blood of all Chinese sons and daughters!