身虽处天地万物之后，心却不在天地万物之前；身虽处天地万物之中，而心却在天地万物之上。

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.

公共领域是一个社会空间，私人个体聚集在一起形成一个公共体，表达社会对国家的需求。

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The only thing I’m scared of is being average.