"The past whispers to us through the pages of a biography."
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to think every morning, 'What can be done better?'
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
成为诗人意味着拥有一个如此敏锐的灵魂,以至于没有任何品质的细微差别能逃过它的察觉。
孔子说:“对品德不进行培养,对学问不进行钻研,听到好人好事不能跟着做,有了错误不能及时改正,这就是我所担忧的。”
Memory is the last fortress against forgetting.