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。

"Books are the building blocks of empathy."

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。