不受流俗所牵累,不因外物而矫饰,不对人提出苛严的的要求,不背违众人的心情,但愿天下太平无事人人都能糊口养生,自己和他人生存条件能够得到保证也就心满意足,并且以此来剖白自己的心迹。

没有什么比一项未完成的任务永远悬在那里更令人疲惫的了。

译文：古人最忌讳，表面对人顺从，背地里却反对。

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.