【译文】如果不明事理，那么动就不知道往哪里去;如果不动，那么即使明白事理也没有用处。

It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that democracy is possible.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The architect must be a master of light and shadow.