"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·相刺》。即便像扁鹊那样医术高明的人，病人不肯接受针药的治疗，也是没有办法医治好他的病；即便是贤圣之士，如果国君没有接受正言相谏的雅量，那么贤圣也无能为力。这句话用良医治病也要病人配合和治国光靠贤圣之士的才干还不够做对比，更加充分的说明了贤君配合之道理。

人们如此沉迷于我的痛苦，但他们追随我是为了看我失败。