Life is a series of endless repetitions, each more meaningless than the last.

问题的真实本质往往被其表面现象所掩盖。

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

解释：自己行为不端的人就难以要求别人行为端正，不孝顺父母的人也不能忠于君主。