In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
真相往往隐藏在显而易见之处。
建筑师必须是一个先知...真正意义上的先知...如果他不能预见至少十年以后的事情,就不要称他为建筑师。
Diplomacy requires strategic and long-term thinking to achieve a country's long-term interests and security.
黄金和白银,像其他商品一样,具有内在价值,这不是任意的,而是取决于它们的稀缺性、获取它们所耗费的劳动量以及在矿山中使用的资本价值。
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
The life of a writer is absolutely solitary. He has to be alone to do his work.
人们并不懒惰。他们只是有无力的目标——也就是说,目标没有激励他们。