Lin Yu-tang's Essays: Bound Indissolubly with the World

Author: Lin Yutang
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Heaven grants us a life of seventy years. If our aspirations are too arrogant, desiring immortality, these seventy years indeed seem fleeting. But if our hearts are a little more tranquil, these seventy years are also long enough. In seventy years, one can learn much and enjoy many blessings. To witness human folly and gain human wisdom, seventy years are already long enough. A wise person, if granted a longer life, can observe the rise and fall of customs, morals, and politics over these seventy years. When the curtain falls on life's stage, he should also be able to rise from his seat with contentment, say, "This has been a good play," and leave.