The Wisdom of Life人生的智慧（英文版，托马斯·曼：绝对一流的灵魂体验）

除了全英哪哪都挺好 看标题以为中英文都有 快速翻完了发现没有中文🙃

Life is like a pendulum, swinging between pain and boredom: when desires are unsatisfied, there is pain; when desires are satisfied, there is boredom.
Thinking is the source of human happiness. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love to think and those who do not. People who do not like to think prefer to “seek happiness from the external world”—for example, through eating, drinking, having fun, shopping, and so on. When external conditions disappear, those who do not like to think feel spiritually empty. Moreover, people who do not like to think tend to focus their attention on the trivialities of daily life, which makes their thinking shallow. Unfortunately, they are unaware of this, so their lives are spent drifting along in a daze.


How much our happiness depends upon our spirits, and these again upon our state of health, may be seen by comparing the influence which the same external circumstances or events have upon us when we are well and strong with the effects which they have when we are depressed and troubled with ill-health！