水至清则无鱼,人太察则无谋。知者减半,愚者全无。
【译文】水过分清澈就不会有鱼,人过于明察就不会有人为你出主意。世上的聪明人若减少一半,那么愚笨的人也就没有了。
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
译文:人要是失足犯错就会成为千古的遗恨,再回头时发现已经物是人非事事休。赏析:是感情的动物,常常会因为某些原因,做出令人懊恼悔恨的事。每一个错误,都要付出惨痛的代价。错误越大,代价越惨痛。做了错事,良心不安,别人痛苦,自己更痛苦。