财富地位如同浮云般虚幻，功名利禄像流水一样易逝。

追求权力是国际体系中各国的首要目标。

Literature is a memory, a look back at the past.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

只管走过去，不必逗留着采了花朵来保存，因为一路上花朵自会继续开放的。