失败不可怕，可怕的是不敢尝试。

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

君子掌权临事，那么连小人都能变为君子，处在这种情况里，还不能成为君子的，那就是货真价实的小人了；小人弄权擅事，那么一般人都沦为小人，处在这种局面下，仍然不沦为小人的，那就是不折不扣的君子了。