I think about the ways in which abstraction can be a form of figuration.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

结交朋友应该找超过自己的人，和自己差不多或不如自己的人不如不交。

幸福的秘密是自由，自由的秘密是勇气。