长期成功的关键是为社会创造价值。
【释义】明智的君主反思自己的短处，从而不断完善自己；昏庸的君主掩饰自己的短处，永远处于愚昧无知的状态。
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
子张问：“什么是五种美德？”孔子说：“君子对人民施加恩惠，却不耗费财用；使百姓劳苦，百姓却无怨言；自己有所欲求却不贪婪；安宁矜持却不骄横；威严却不凶猛。”……子张又说：“什么是四种恶行？”孔子说：“事先不经教育，犯了罪就杀头叫做肆虐；不先告诫便要求有成效，这叫粗暴；发布命令迟缓，却突然限期完成，这叫残害人；同是给人赏赐，却出手吝啬，这叫只进不出的财务衙门。
"A writer is essentially a person who writes not because he has to, but because he cannot not write."