I don’t think you can compare different eras. Every era has its own challenges and its own special things.

史记

La lectura es un acto de libertad, una forma de escapar de las cadenas de la cotidianidad.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

如果我们总是做同样的事情，就不要指望事情会改变。

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition， when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security， is so powerful a principle that it is alone， and without any assistance， not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.