If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
如果你回溯几百年，我们今天认为理所当然的事情会像魔法一样——能够远距离与人交谈、传输图像、飞行、像先知一样访问大量数据。这些都是几百年前会被视为魔法的事情。
最好的出路永远是穿过去。
未经省察的人生不值得过。
释义：忍耐可以观察事物情理的变化，忍耐可以挫败奸邪的时机，忍耐可以保持刑罚奖赏的公正，忍耐可以积蓄威严品德的稳固。
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.