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The phrase "knowledge is power" must be familiar to everyone. It's from Francis Bacon. As a philosopher, writer, judge and politician in 16- 17 century, bacon analyzed the way of doing things in philosophy and ethics from his unique perspective. Condensed into a thin collection of bacon essays. Although there is only a thin layer, you can taste a variety of flavors from it. It's a textbook for making friends, and it's also a larded school in officialdom.
Among many articles, the one I appreciate most is about adversity. "The luck brought by prosperity is valuable, but the quality created by adversity is more convincing. The virtue of prosperity is self-discipline, and the virtue of adversity is perseverance. " These are my two favorite sentences in the whole film. It can be said that this is the essence of the whole article. From these two sentences or the whole article, we can see a bacon who is constantly striving for self-improvement, and it also brings me a lot of enlightenment. Encountering adversity can be understood as the misfortune of life, because it brings us difficulties, setbacks and pains; Adversity can also be understood as luck in life, because it gives us opportunities to exercise, test people's will and hone their minds. It can be said that the tempering of formal adversity has created a group of great men in history.
This reminds me of the filament invented by Edison. One, two, hundreds, thousands, faced with many failed materials, he did not choose to give up. This indomitable spirit in adversity has enabled mankind to enter a bright world.
Galileo insisted on "but the earth is still turning" regardless of the persecution of the church. He defended the truth with his own life, and we saw the brilliance of his humanity in adversity.
It is people's different performances in adversity that determine their own destiny. Negative people, in the face of adversity, have to sigh and complain and eventually fall down; However, positive people can learn to persevere from adversity and gain courage and enterprising spirit. "Adversity is a true friend". In this way, adversity not only teaches us how to struggle, but also shows the true feelings and virtues in the world. In my opinion, encountering adversity is a valuable life experience. How to make use of these experiences is the key to success. The virtue of adversity is perseverance, and what adversity wants to teach us is perseverance. But not many people really regard adversity as a mentor.
Prosperity often exposes bad habits, and adversity best shows virtue.
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Bacon's essays are divided into several parts, such as knowledge, beauty, goodness, truth, health, family and friendship. It can be said that all the essays in Bacon's essays are excellent and worth reading and tasting at will.
Among them, my favorite book is about beauty and friendship. I think friendship is the most indispensable thing in life, so I have read this article "On Friendship" several times. Among them, I especially like that sentence: "People who can't get friendship are poor loners all their lives. A society without friendship is a desert, so people who are willing to be lonely are not people, but animals." This sentence sums up the two proverbs "People who like loneliness are either animals or gods" and "A city is like a wilderness", which is very subtle and convincing. However, another sentence in On Friendship is also familiar to us: "If you tell a friend happiness, you will get two happiness;" And if you talk to a friend about your troubles, you will be divided into half. " This sentence describes the true meaning of friendship, and makes us realize that even friends who have just quarreled can't help but want to apologize to each other, because friendship is really important to us, but Bacon described the true meaning of friendship so naturally that no matter who he is, he won't deny these two points.
The second article is On Beauty, which is also a masterpiece among masterpieces. In fact, no one can tell what beauty is. I think, for most people, no matter what the future is like, seeing a person first looks at his (her) appearance, rather than immediately exploring his (her) inner self. Bacon's thought should be the same, but in his On Beauty, he emphasized how people should treat external beauty and internal beauty. Indeed, no one in the world is perfect, so don't complain about your external defects. Only inner beauty is eternal beauty. Virtue is more important than beauty. Only by combining the appearance of beauty with the virtue of beauty can beauty really shine. There is a saying in the article: "The beauty of form is better than the beauty of color, and the beauty of elegant manners is better than the beauty of form." Yes, body shape is the overall image of a person, body shape; Color refers to the five senses, mainly the face, partial; The beauty of behavior refers to the gesture, which is acquired, the reflection of inner beauty and the highest of the three. In fact, in real life, many people pay attention to the beauty of their figure and complexion every day, but don't care about their inner beauty at all, so many beautiful girls export bad words, which makes people feel very uncultured and unstable. As bacon said, "beauty is like fruit in midsummer, which is perishable and difficult to preserve."
The ancients said: Read thousands of books and take Wan Li Road. Bacon can have his own unique views on many things in the world and write them down for future generations to pass on. Others say that Rome was not built in a day. If we want to be a famous writer like Bacon, we should also read more books and practice more, so that our works can also become the "preface" in our lives.