读书不下苦功，妄想显荣，岂有此理？为人全无好处，欲邀福庆，从何得来？
译文：读书学习不愿意下苦功夫，就妄想获得显贵荣华，天下哪有这样的道理？对人没有一点好口碑，却想得到福分和吉祥，敢问它从何得到呢？赏析：不管是读书还是创业，如果不下苦功夫，哪里会容易取得成功呢？要想赢得别人的尊重，自己就要树立好的口碑。
世俗的儒者不考察，认为工商是末业，妄加议论抑制。
法律体系的存在取决于官员对次要规则的接受。
The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.