The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The desires， and other passions of man， in themselves， are in his own power； his real difficulties are， to know when they are to be controlled， and when not.

有时你必须与你爱的人分开，但这并不会让你减少对他们的爱。有时你会更爱他们。

The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. That is the hyperreal.

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.