这种想象力的第一个成果——以及体现它的社会科学的第一个教训——是个人只有将自己定位在他的时代中，才能理解自己的经历并衡量自己的命运，只有意识到他所在环境中所有个体的机会，他才能知道自己的生活机会。

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

The greatest battles are not fought with weapons, but with ideas.

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

释义：杜绝不良嗜好，禁止过度欲望，从而摆脱牵累；抑制错误行为，减少邪恶之事，从而消除过错；减少饮酒，远离美色，从而保持自身清白。这是对修身养性、克制欲望的教导。