People love comedy, but in the end, they only remember tragedy
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1、 One Thousand and One Nights "is known as" Arabian Nights "in the West and" Arabian Nights "in China. It is said that after the Ming Dynasty in China, Arab countries were referred to as the "Heavenly Kingdom"; Arabs like to hold parties at night, and the stories in the book are all told at night, so it is translated into this book title.
2、 The author of "Montaigne Essays" is Montaigne, an outstanding French philosopher of the late Renaissance who converted to Catholicism in 1562; He only began writing "Essays" after his father's death in 1572.
3、 Classic excerpt from "Montaigne Essays": "Once love enters the stage of friendship, that is to say, enters the stage of like-minded will, it will weaken and disappear." "When the brain is idle, it will have wild thoughts." "Exploring philosophy is learning death
4、 In the Western world, most households must have two books, one is the Bible and the other is the Complete Works of Shakespeare. There is a British proverb that goes, "It is better not to have 100 Indians than to have Shakespeare
5、 A Midsummer Night's Dream "is one of Shakespeare's early comedies that received the most attention. But its popularity is much lower than the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.