The end is always closer than you think.
In the end, all we have are stories, and the hope that they might mean something to someone.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
连人都不能很好地事奉,还怎么能事奉鬼呢?
The writer’s duty is to tell the terrible truth, and it is the reader’s duty to learn from it.
(一个人)在本不应结束的点上结束、舍弃了自己的努力,这样的人就什么事都可能结束放弃。对于应该厚待与重视的人,没有厚待重视而是慢(薄)待轻视,那么他对什么人、什么事都可以慢待轻蔑。这样的人,向前进行的时候锐气十足,(遇到难点)倒退下来,也会非常迅速。