最伟大的作品是那些在作者去世很久之后仍被阅读的作品。

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are.

预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

I'm not afraid to die, I'm afraid not to have tried.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.