If you don’t take risks, you’ll never know what you’re capable of.
意见正确而不被采纳,意见错误而不被废止,有功的人得不到奖赏,有罪的人得不到惩治,这样能够治理好百姓国家的,从来没有过。
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
解释:国家垂危败亡,一定是因为任用了奸邪小人。