循法之功，不足以高世；法古之学，不足以制今。
译文：遵循古法成就的功业，不完全高于今世；效法古人的学问，不能够制定今天的制度。
The greatest crimes are not committed by people breaking the rules, but by people following the rules.
学习是避免陷入人生困境的唯一途径。
"Books are the keys to understanding ourselves."
Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government," and as such constituted the "end of history."