The advantage of a ridiculously ambitious goal is that it sets the bar very high so even in failure it may be a success measured by the ordinary.
设定一个野心得荒谬的目标的好处是，上限足够高，这样即使最后失败了，以通常的标准来衡量也可以算某种程度上的成功。
管理艺术的第一步是为正确的工作选择正确的人。
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
The world is not something to be understood, but something to be experienced.
历史中的优点似乎有三种，一种是来自气候和国家的纯粹地理位置，一种是来自政府形式和人民性格，一种是来自那些更细致的哲学原则和道德，可以称为哲学的推荐。