The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.
陌生人与我们接近，因为我们在他们和我们自己之间感受到民族、社会、职业或一般人类本性的共同特征。他们远离我们，因为这些共同特征超越了他们或我们，并且只因为它们连接了许多人而连接我们。
现代时代最重要的政治发展是现代国家的崛起。
The greatest crimes are not committed by those who break the rules, but by those who follow them to the letter.
The study of automorphic representations reveals the hidden symmetries of number fields.