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一个富人去拜访一位哲学家,请教他为什么自己有钱后变得越来越自私了。哲学家带他到窗前,问:“你看到了什么?”富人说:“我看到了外面世界很多人。”哲学家又带他到一面镜子前,问:“你又看到了什么?”富人说:“我自己。”哲学家告诉他:“窗子和镜子都是玻璃做的,区别只在于镜子多了一层薄薄的银子。就因为这一层银子,便叫你只看到自己而看不到世界了。”石油大王洛克菲勒发财后,富甲一方,变得贪婪而冷酷,当地居民对他恨之入骨。连他的兄弟也不齿他的行为,将自己儿子的坟墓迁出洛克菲勒家族的墓园,说:“在洛克菲勒支配的土地上,我的儿子无法安眠!”洛克菲勒53岁时,生了一场大病,骨瘦如柴,医生向他宣告了一个残酷的事实:“你必须在金钱、烦恼、生命三者中选择一个。这时他领悟到,是贪婪的恶魔控制了他的身心。他听从医生劝告,放弃财富,开始过一种与世无争的生活。他考虑如何把巨额财产捐给别人,起初人们不相信,也不接受,后来才慢慢理解了他的诚意。密歇根湖畔一家学校因资不抵债行将倒闭,他马上捐出数百万美元,从而促成了如今的芝加哥大学
A rich man visits a philosopher and asks why he became more selfish after he got rich. The philosopher took him to the window and asked: ”What did you see?“ The rich said: ”I saw many people in the outside world.“ ”The philosopher takes him to a mirror and asks:“ You What did you see? ”The rich said:“ I myself. ”The philosopher told him:“ The windows and the mirrors are all made of glass, except that the mirrors have a thin layer of silver. A layer of silver, so that you can only see yourself and can not see the world. ”King Rockefeller oil rich, wealthy party, become greedy and cruel, the local residents hate him. Even his brother, who disobeyed his behavior, moved his son’s grave out of the Rockefeller’s cemetery and said: “My son could not sleep at Rockefeller’s land!” Rockefeller gave birth to one when he was 53 He was so sick and scrawny that the doctor declared to him a cruel fact: "You must choose one of money, troubles, and life, when he realized that it was greedy devil who controlled his body and mind. He obeyed the doctor Advice, abandonment of wealth, began a life of no competition and he considered how to donate huge sums of property to others, at first people do not believe or accept, and later slowly understand his sincerity. Insolvency is about to collapse, and he immediately donated millions of dollars, which led to today’s University of Chicago