君子吃饭无求过饱，……做事要勤奋，说话要谨慎，并能接近有道理的人，向他学习，以纠正自己的缺点，这就可以说是好学的人了。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

鹪鹩栖息在密密的深林，只不过占有一根树枝；偃鼠在河边饮水，只不过喝了满满一肚子。

写作就是直面过去留下的幽灵。

我们需要关注政策的实际结果，而不仅仅是其预期效果。