有句古话：“知足常乐”。语出《老子》：“祸莫大于不知足， 咎莫大于欲得， 故知足之足常足矣。”它历来被视为一种人生精义。当代一位作家写道：“一个快乐主义者首先得有知足的修养， 就是古训所谓的， 知足常乐。” 近读俄国契诃夫， 发觉他也极奉“知足常乐论”。他说， There is an old saying: “contentment.” The phrase “Lao Tzu”: “Misfortune is greater than I do not know enough to blame Muyu Yu Desire, so contentment enough often enough.” It has always been regarded as a kind of essence of life. A contemporary writer writes: “A hedonistic person must first be content with self-cultivation, which is the so-called old-fashioned confession of pleasure.” When he read about Chekhov in Russia, he found that he too devoted himself to “contentment of entertaining novels.” He said,