Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: the first is law, the last prerogative.
理性统治，但仁慈宽恕：前者是法律，后者是特权。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.