Don't think you can get anything easily. Everything in life requires your efforts and costs. Even if you can get some gifts in life easily, you will eventually pay the price, not worth the loss.

It can also be understood as: this sentence is to warn others not to be insatiable, not to try to get something for nothing, and also to persuade people not to be extravagant, thinking that pies will fall in the sky, or to pay down-to-earth and live seriously, or they will pay the price.

This sentence comes from Zweig's Broken Queen, and the story is probably:

There was a girl named Marie Antoinette, the youngest daughter of the Austrian Queen in the 8th century. In order to strengthen diplomatic relations, she married the French prince at the age of 15. Four years later, the king died, the prince became Louis XVI, and she became the queen.

Louis XVI suffered from recessive diseases, and Marie Antoinette was widowed for seven years. Her hormones were hard to shake off, and she began to drink and gamble day and night, singing and dancing day and night with the ladies and handsome young knights who flattered her. She loves dressing up, chasing luxury jewelry, and even intervening in state affairs, seeking official positions and annuities for her minions, resulting in high government debts. Louis XVI was honest, cowardly, and perhaps heavily in debt, obedient to the queen.

At that time, the influence of the American War of Independence had been fermented in Europe, and intellectuals realized that "a country without a king" was actually possible. The bottom people lived in poverty, the national finance was on the verge of collapse, and the French Revolution broke out. Of course, the king is very kind, mistaking da ji for his country, and pointing the finger at "Austrian women", "wives who lost their wealth" and "prostitutes of the promiscuous court".

There is no "fornication court" in Marie Antoinette. As an Austrian princess and a French queen, she was born in wealth and luxury and took the life she enjoyed for granted. Zweig wrote in her biography:

Fate gave her everything easily, and it was this undeserved gift of life that made her poor. Fate spoiled her too early, and noble birth and higher status fell on her, so she didn't have to work hard; So she thinks that there is no need to work hard at all, and she can live as she wants. Everything seems to fit.

1789, the people captured the Bastille and the king and queen were placed under house arrest. Under house arrest, Marie Antoinette suddenly woke up. She tenaciously mediated with revolutionaries, planned several counterattacks and fled, showing the queen's courage and dignity, and was called "the only man in Versailles at that time". However, everything is irreversible. Four years later, at the age of 38, she was guillotined.

For Marie Antoinette, Zweig's works have unbearable sympathy. He wrote: she wants to rule and enjoy at the same time; She wants the authority of the queen and the freedom of women; She reached out her jade hand and grabbed the crown, as if she had found an unexpected gift. She is too young to know that all the gifts given by fate have been priced in the dark.

In fact, a person's progress, mental maturity and improvement of life are all behind years of hard work. We polish ourselves today because we still have expectations for the future.

If God gives you an unexpected gift, make yourself worthy of it. If you work hard enough and still can't see the dawn, please believe that the gift of fate is on the way. It may be late, but it will come eventually-you have paid the price and can enjoy it with peace of mind.