It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

释义：天地顺自然而动，所以日月运行不会有差错，四季的更替也不会有差错。圣人顺自然之理而动，则刑罚清明而百姓顺服。