业精于勤荒于嬉,行成于思毁于随。
译文:勤奋能使学业更加精进,而沉迷于玩乐会导致学业荒废;德行由于独立思考而有所成就,由于因循随俗而败坏。赏析:人如果愚钝不开,只要勤奋也能补拙,但聪明的人要是玩物就会丧志,做任何事也不会成功。
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices they would not have made had they seen what their choices involved.