I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
当有人做出决定时,他实际上是跳入了一股强大的潮流,这股潮流将把他带到他最初做出决定时从未梦想过的地方。
成为哲学家不仅仅是有微妙的思想,甚至也不是建立一个学派,而是如此热爱智慧以至于按照它的指示生活。
过度捕捞的真正代价是用空荡荡的渔网和破碎的社区来衡量的。