We live in a world where everything is for sale, including our souls.
在茫茫的大沙漠上盲目地去找水井,真荒唐。然而我们还是开始去寻找了。
【译文】是是非非每天都有,若不去听它自然就不存在了。宁可生活贫困,做一个正直的人,也不能生活富足,做一个奸邪的人。有些事宁可相信它有,也不要相信它没有。
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.