History has neither the desire nor the capacity to make men better or worse; it merely records what they have been and what they have done.
历史既没有愿望也没有能力使人变得更好或更坏;它仅仅记录了他们曾经是什么以及他们做了什么。
The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.
做官的人应为肩负天下重任而养身,而不是为私家小利惜身。省却嗜好欲念,减除烦恼忧虑,戒除愤怒,节制饮食,这就是养身。计较得失利益,规避辛劳哀怨,营造住宅房舍,以妻子儿女为重,这就是惜身。养生的人,不妄为而大方;惜身的人,腥膻而琐碎。
可持续性不是一种选择,而是长期成功的必要条件。
真理如同金子,不是靠它的增长,而是靠洗去一切不是金子的东西来获得。