释义：看到已经发生的事情要谨慎对待将要发生的事情，厌恶某种行为轨迹的人必须避开它。害怕危险的人才能平安，害怕灭亡的人才能生存。这是对谨慎行事、防患未然的智慧的强调。

文学是社会的镜子，以毫不退缩的诚实反映其美德和恶习。

The problem of the modern individual is not that he has too little choice, but that he has too much.

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

The true measure of success isn't just profitability, but how we achieve it.

世界上充满了故事，但所有的故事都是一个。