政府,即使在其最佳状态下,也不过是一种必要的恶;在其最坏状态下,则是一种无法忍受的恶。
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Every point is important, and you have to fight for every one.
市场竞争能够促进资源的有效配置。
富家子弟因求官位而倾家荡产,贪污的官吏因贪财而失职守。
The most important thing in trading is to stay in the game. You have to be able to survive the bad times to make it to the good times.
出自北齐·颜之推《颜氏家训·教子》。慈,慈爱。则,那么。畏慎,畏惧、谨慎。矣,句末语气助词。父母有威严也有慈爱,那么子女就会畏惧、谨慎而生孝顺之心。孝子是靠严格而慈祥的方法培养出来的,不是一味溺爱就能教育出来的。
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
"An actor's job is to make the audience forget they are watching a performance."