Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

我不知道有谁需要一个次品的自己。

都是出卖，卖给中原各国也可以，何必非要卖给越国呢？ 

The goal of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.