The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.
Extraordinary claims should require extraordinary evidence to be believed.
The greatest battles are not fought with weapons, but with ideas.
唯一真正的知识是自知之明。
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
生活是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
现在，对于做了很小错事的人，人们都知道他做错了并谴责他；对于犯了大的过错，以至于攻打别的国家的人，人们却不知道谴责他，反而跟着赞美这种行为，说这是义。