The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.

I'm not a conversation, I'm a harmony.

The pursuit of mathematical truth requires both intuition and rigor.

世界的历史就是那些相信自己的人的历史。