If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate.
要是你们能够洞察时间所播的种子,知道哪一颗会长成,哪一颗不会长成,那么请对我说吧;我既不乞讨你们的恩遇,也不惧怕你们的憎恨。
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
The great ideological battles between liberalism and communism, or between democracy and authoritarianism, have ended in the victory of the former.