臣民对主权的义务，只要主权者能保护他们，就持续存在，否则就不再存在。
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.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
诗人是他时代的见证者，是人类情感的编年史家。
"The stories we tell ourselves are the ones that shape us."
我专注于我能控制的事情。
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.