The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

国君若真的希望人民多而不希望人民减少的话,如果要蓄养姬妾,就不能不节制。

The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.

The international system is inherently competitive, and states are constantly trying to outmaneuver each other.