任何事都要争先的人，必定有人挤兑他；任何事都要争胜的人，必定遭人打击。

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

现在王公大人从事于音乐，损害夺取人民的衣食之资，仅从命人听乐这一点来看就已经很厉害了。 

The only way to escape the mundane is to constantly transform it.

为自己的原则而战比实践这些原则要容易。

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

年轻人不知道足够谨慎，因此他们尝试不可能的事情，并一代又一代地实现它。